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How do you know some people are lying here about their age?


From the other comment:

> Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90


You could, in most cases, go from their e-mail or whatever data they put in their profile description back to their LinkedIn account, at which point you can get a pretty good estimate of their age (based on education and work history). In theory, you could even automate this. ;).


Multiple answers, at least, would be my guess.




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