SquorlpleI have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form
De_NarmCould be due to my country, but I’ve never met someone who doesn’t know their sign. Neither have I ever met someone who actually gives a fuck about it.
Of course, just ask for the month. If you know that, you can probably guess the zodiac too.
Flying SquidFor the handful of us born near the end or the beginning of a month, it would make it harder to guess, but yeah. It’s really not the best identity question but it is something most people either automatically know or can figure out really easily even if they forget later, so I can sort of see the rationale even though I think it’s silly.
108 days of the year fall in that end-of-the-month window where they belong to the astrological sign associated with the month that follows, so almost 30% of all possible birth dates become harder to guess. (Your comment made me curious as to just how significant this variability could be in practice - a lot more than I would have guessed)
I guess it’s a slightly better security question than I thought, but still not great. Nowhere near as hard to guess as something like your first childhood pet.