▲ | dhx a day ago | |
In the spirit of "Falsehoods programmers believe in"[1] for human ages: * Not all people know their age.[2] * Even if people do know their age they may not have any means to prove their age.[2] * Even if people know their age, they may know their age only in a calendar system which is ambiguous or with a margin of error.[3] * Even if people have documentation proving their age, the documentation may provide an approximate age or use a calendar system which is ambiguous or with a margin of error.[3] * Even if people have documentation proving their age, they may know it to be incorrect. * People may have multiple documents each nominating a different age. * People may be reissued with new documents changing their recognised age. * Even if the government tries to guess someone's unknown age, it's an inexact science and could be revised later. [1] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood [2] https://www.racgp.org.au/getattachment/fe71891a-aafe-453f-a3... [3] Example calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_calendar |