Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form

scholar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The purpose of these questions is to verify your identity; they have your DoB, and are asking the question to confirm that you are who you say you are, so if you answer N/A when the correct answer is one of the other 4, you’ll be denied access to whatever you’re signing up for.

  All that said, “What month were you born in?” would have been a much better question for the reasons OP notes.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All that said, “What month were you born in?” would have been a much better question for the reasons OP notes.

    We were discussing this in the atheism community and the advantage of zodiac sign over birth month is that there is not an even overlap between months and zodiac signs, so 30% of people will be born in a different month than the one associated with the sign. I’m one of these. I was born near the end of the month so the sign I would be associated with is not the sign people associate with the month.

    Don’t get me wrong, I think this was a stupid security question, but it’s less stupid than it first sounds because of that.

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• Squorlple@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From what I begrudgingly know about astrology, “Does not apply” would only pertain to people who haven’t been born yet or who were born outside of the solar system. Knowing if “None of the above” applies still requires knowledge of how the arbitrary categories correspond with the calendar.

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re all wrong anyway.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bah. My star sign stays the same in this adjusted version. And I don’t even get a horse racing tip.

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was going to praise this guy for beating Weird Al to the punch by 4 years, but the Zoloft and phone jokes give it away as a fake (or at least not from 1995).

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      • Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Zoloft been in use since 1991, and “Is that your phone?” was a perfectly cromulent thing to say in the 90s, meaning “do I hear your land-line ringing?” not “is that your pocket computer on the table there?”

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      • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s real: latimes.newspapers.com/search/results/?county=Los…

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well yeah, Dulcinea is hitting on the Ninth’s cavalier

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are more than four signs, it could be N/A if you were in the other eight.

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