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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: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Saturday April 12 2014, @01:58AM

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday April 12 2014, @01:58AM (#30392) Journal

    To this you have to add the revolving trends in names, as new trends come and old trends die.

    Further, One could argue that the chances of attending oxford with a given name is inversely proportional to the number of people so named, and significant of absolutely nothing else.

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