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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 12 2014, @01:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 12 2014, @01:57AM (#30391)

    I think the headline should use 'effect'. Names affect people's path in life. So, the choice of a name causes an effect. The effect of a name.

    The whole thing would be clearer if it read

    "The effect of names on individuals"

    or

    "How names can affect lives"