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So I did some experimentation to demonstrate that as the sample size increases the percentage moves closer to 50%.

I used a computer to randomly generate a number, either 1 or 2 (representing male or female).

Results by sample size (ss):

ss 10 = 70%

ss 100 = 55%

ss 1000 = 48%

ss 10000 = 50.22%

ss 100000 = 49.808%

ss 1000000 = 49.9077%

ss 10000000 = crashed the computer

In terms of distance from 50%:

ss 10 = 20

ss 100 = 5

ss 1000 = 2

ss 10000 = .22

ss 100000 = .192

ss 1000000 = .0923

ss 10000000 = crashed the computer

It is clearly getting significantly closer to 50% as the sample size gets larger. In fact even a sample size as small as 100 was pretty close to 50%.