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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 TGV on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:15AM

    by TGV (2838) on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:15AM (#30459)

    I didn't see anything in the article that convinced me of the opposite. I also cannot imagine any mechanism that would lead to the described effect. What did you see that convinced you it's not pure correlation?

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:17AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 12 2014, @06:17AM (#30460) Journal
    See here [soylentnews.org]
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford