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> birth date, the name of their mother and their birth place Surely not, there must be a day in which two children were born on the same day in the same hospit
by bscphil 7y ago
> birth date, the name of their mother and their birth place
Surely not, there must be a day in which two children were born on the same day in the same hospital in New York City to two women named Jane Smith?
- Demiurge 7y agoI suspect it happens to twins a lot.
- mikegreenberg 7y agoI'd wager at least 100% of the time.
- heelix 7y agoThe kicker is they reuse the SSNs. Had a gig where I was working with the 'death master' files. (It use to be much easier to get your hands on the files - https://ladmf.ntis.gov https://ladmf.ntis.gov now) and it would list every SSN number used by the dead. Lots of duplicate SSNs, some malformed data, some just missing. An interesting data set to look at, and a great reminder why folks should not be using this as an identifier.