Old news from 2016

Jobseekers with Anglo-Saxon, easy to pronounce and common names are the most likely to get to the interview stage compared to candidates with unfamiliar names, according to research by the Australian National University published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/unusual-nam...

Way to crap on a joke and not even do a good job at it.

(Anglo-Saxon | easy to pronounce | common names) != Nobel Prizewinner names

"Nobel and Novice: Author Prominence Affects Peer Review" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4190976

Surely they didn't mean actual Anglo-Saxon names, right? Those name are so challenging to the modern english-hearing ear.

https://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/anglo-saxon

Æðelwulf wrote a heck of a quicksort on the whiteboard under the gun last week.

What would Žižek say?

"No no no, within which historical context does it even make sense to ask this question? No? You see?"

I was really confused because when I last looked at academic job postings it was in Medieval Studies.

“Jobseekers with Anglo-Saxon” means “candidates who speak Anglo-Saxon.”

And I’m like “I thought that was just a medieval studies thing, but I guess the older languages really do help …”

Hey, it's me, Niels Bohr.

I'd love to see this tested. Identical name; unique first name identical only; last name...it would be funny to see the results if this research is any indication.

People kept dissing me as Einstein so much I went with Nikola. People now keep asking me if I make electric cars for some reason.

priors matter, right?

Priors are bigotry, sorry.