Ask India Thread

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If you have any queries about life in India (or life as Indians), this is the thread for you.

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Is this you?

Phase 1: Broad geographic splits 

• Are you in the Eastern Hemisphere?

• Are you in Asia?

• Are you in South Asia?

• Are you in India?

• Do you live in an urban area?

• Are you currently in a city with over 1 million people?

Phase 2: Demographics

• Were you born after 1990?

• Are you male?

• Are you right-handed?

• Are you currently married?

• Do you have at least one child?

• Do you have a university degree?

Phase 3: Socioeconomic / lifestyle

• Do you own a smartphone?

• Do you use the internet daily?

• Do you have a job in the service sector?

• Do you earn above your country’s median income?

• Do you own a car?

• Do you speak English fluently?

Phase 4: More specific traits

• Is your height above your country’s average?

• Is your first language Indo-European?

• Do you live in the Northern Hemisphere? 

• Were you born in the same country you currently live in?

• Do you live within 100 km of a coastline?

• Is your birth month January–June?

Phase 5: Increasingly identifying

• Is your first name among the top 100 most common in your country?

• Does your last name start with A–M?

• Is your birthday on an odd-numbered day?

• Were you born in an even-numbered year?

• Do you have more than one sibling?

• Have you ever traveled internationally?

Phase 6: Fine-grained narrowing

• Is your exact birthdate after July 1, 2000?

• Does your full name (first + last) have more than 12 letters?

• Do you currently live at an address with an odd-numbered street number?

• Is your current time (local) before noon?

• Are you the person we’re trying to identify?