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Help[Facts] Re: Q about Social Security data
in reply to a message by ClaudiaS
I have noticed this also. The name this is the most striking with to me is "Joe". There are a great many more boys listed as just "Joe" in the early years of SSA than I think could possibly have actually had that form on their birth certificates.
The further back you go in the Social Security data, the more seeming gender mistakes there are (too many boys listed with names like Mary).
And I think there are also more mistakes in year of birth. "Lindbergh" first shows up as having more than five boys born with that name a couple of years BEFORE Charles Lindbergh became famous. This is hardly likely and probably comes from elderly and fairly uneducated people simply not remembering their own age correctly when they filled out SSA forms.
The further back you go in the Social Security data, the more seeming gender mistakes there are (too many boys listed with names like Mary).
And I think there are also more mistakes in year of birth. "Lindbergh" first shows up as having more than five boys born with that name a couple of years BEFORE Charles Lindbergh became famous. This is hardly likely and probably comes from elderly and fairly uneducated people simply not remembering their own age correctly when they filled out SSA forms.
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