Do you know which city you were born in?

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  • Yes
  • No
  • I don’t like giving a straight answer
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Wasn’t born in a city

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Sounds like a candidate for the “don’t like giving a straight answer” . . .

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Okay, which forest or wildland then? Which ocean?

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90% certain, might be thinking of the adjacent city without checking.

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I have no way of “knowing”. I can only trust the word of others who were there when it happened.

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I voted yes for me. My ex-wife didn’t know when our oldest child was born and had to find out.

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I don’t really consider this not knowing. I don’t mean do you know off the top of your head, I mean do you know as in can you find out or would it be impossible to find out.

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FTR, I also wasn’t born in a city . . . but I do know where I was born.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

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I don’t consider this not knowing either. Do you ever use the word know when it’s something you were told?

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This is casting a pretty wide net then. Probability(know where you were born | has a birth certificate) is, by definition, 100%. Of those without a birth certificate I suppose some may know where they were born and some may not.

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Strongly disagree with bolded. I know of many who were not born in a hospital . . . or in any city for that matter . . . and their birth certificate shows “unknown” or some description of a rural road or highway.

I wouldn’t argue that the value of this conditional statement is very high (>95%) . . .

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I would guess P[ (know where one was born) | actuary] is higher than P[(know where one was born) | US citizen].

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A misleading title and question then. I imagine there are few people for whom it would be entirely impossible to find their place of birth, especially native-born Americans. If I didn’t have my birth certificate, then I would be uncertain where I was born, but the information exists.

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To be clear, I mean by the definition I think an_actuary is using. I was trying to clarify if I’m understanding his definition/question or not.

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I know which hospital I was born in. I think it’s part of the same city, but it’s in an area that is prone to annexations.

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Nice! I also know what hospital I was born in. It’s definitely part of the city!

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The context, for those unfamiliar: If one needed to know the locality where one’s birth was registered, could they do so based just on their own knowledge / without the assistance of others

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I have my birth certificate somewhere. I know my parents lived outside of Tulsa, but I’m not 100% sure if I was born in Tulsa, it could have been a hospital in a nearby city.

I’ve always told people I was born in Tulsa, for most purposes it’s close enough for sure.

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Almost positive I know. Only possible ambiguity is that it might have been outside the official city limits.