Some believe that the fall in the ratio in the last two years is due to many people being "scared off" using gender tests by frequent media reports over recent years of cases of male children born with limb defects following gender screening procedures.
雖然有人認為近兩年男女比數字呈現下降，是因為過去幾年媒體不斷披露醫療鑑定產下四肢殘缺男嬰的例子，因此「嚇阻」了許多人進行性別鑑定。