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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, Insightful) by clone141166 on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:22AM
This is exactly how statistics should never be used. There are so many additional factors and influences that aren't accounted for or included. I'm not even going to begin taking this one apart because it's pretty obvious it's a useless statistic.
Even some of the seemingly best statistics can turn out to be complete garbage - but it's so hard to tell with stats until you dig very deeply into the methodology used to collect them. Even when the methodology is sound, the statistic may just be proving some hidden association rather than what it appears to be showing.
I really, really don't like statistics.