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posted by janrinok on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the call-me-what-you-will dept.

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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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by dbe on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:33AM

    by dbe (1422) on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:33AM (#30363)

    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

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:37AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:37AM (#30367) Journal
    (I know, I know.... it's blasphemy...) but once in a while it actually worth RTFA.
    In this case, I think it is.
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    • (Score: 1) by TGV on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:15AM

      by TGV (2838) on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:15AM (#30459)

      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

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:17AM (#30460) Journal
        See here [soylentnews.org]
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