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by d1sxeyes 941 days ago
Not sure how you arrived at that guess, but generally I guess that describes the largest demographic of HN users.

Without AI but based on some freely available statistics combined with post history, we can say definitively (assuming honesty on OP’s part) that OP is 35 or 36, and was either born in Germany or moved there when they were young, and they likely still live there or at least have a strong affinity to Germany.

We can reasonably speculate that the fact that they speak German and likely live there, as well as the standard of their English drastically increases the likelihood their parents were educated. Germany’s current total fertility rate is 1.5. It was likely higher when OP was born back in 1986/7 but I couldn’t immediately find any data on that and didn’t look too hard. Given the fact that TFR is a population mean, this suggests a high proportion of single-child families, and generally the more educated one is, the fewer children, so it’s a decent guess that OP is an only child (apparently more than 50% of German families have only one child), but I don’t see anything that would make this a sure fire bet.

I was able to complete some further analysis which could reveal more likely truths about OP such as gender, political orientation, sexuality, etc., but I think this goes far enough without starting to doxx them.