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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: 1) by GeminiDomino on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:54AM

    by GeminiDomino (661) on Saturday April 12 2014, @02:54AM (#30412)

    Odd. When writing a comment, the spelling is correct in the title, but when viewing the discussion (even after refreshing), it's still wrong.

    Kind of like the other day when "fucking" in NCommander's kept bouncing back between plain and obscured seemingly randomly...

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