posted by
janrinok
on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:07AM
from the call-me-what-you-will dept.
lhsi writes:
The BBC has an article about how a name can affect someone throughout their life. One table shows the chance of attending Oxford with a given name, and a graph shows the downward trend of naming children one of the top 50 most popular names.
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Well that one was easy, if you take the distribution of name in a famous university then compare it to the general population distribution you're going to have a skew on family income. They could have at least tried to correct for that factor. How their conclusion holds when you look at the name distribution in higher class? -dbe
I didn't see anything in the article that convinced me of the opposite. I also cannot imagine any mechanism that would lead to the described effect. What did you see that convinced you it's not pure correlation?
(Score: 4, Informative) by dbe on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:33AM
Well that one was easy, if you take the distribution of name in a famous university then compare it to the general population distribution you're going to have a skew on family income.
They could have at least tried to correct for that factor.
How their conclusion holds when you look at the name distribution in higher class?
-dbe
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:37AM
In this case, I think it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by TGV on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:15AM
I didn't see anything in the article that convinced me of the opposite. I also cannot imagine any mechanism that would lead to the described effect. What did you see that convinced you it's not pure correlation?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:17AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford