7.8 Are boys and girls equiprobable? In Carcelle-le-Grignon at the end of the eighteenth century, there were 2009 births. There were 983 boys and 1026 girls. You can regard this as a fair random sample (with replacement, though try not to think too hard about what that means) of births. Assess the evidence against the hypothesis that a boy is born with probability exactly 0.5.