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The Effect Of A Name

posted by janrinok on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:07AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by randmcnatt on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:56AM

    by randmcnatt (671) on Saturday April 12 2014, @12:56AM (#30376)
    My bad, the headline should be "effect", the link "affect".
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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 12 2014, @01:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 12 2014, @01:44AM (#30388)

    https://www.xkcd.com/326/ [xkcd.com]

    • (Score: 2) by khallow on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:10AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:10AM (#30397) Journal

      That's the first thing I thought of. Shame on XKCD for spoiling our traditional pasttimes.

  • (Score: 2) by lhsi on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:31PM

    by lhsi (711) on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:31PM (#30528) Journal

    I think when I first started writing the headline "affect" was correct, but I hit the character limit and had to edit down to a title that fit, forgetting to correct.