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Re:Why Your Name Matters by wink on Saturday December 21, 2013 @05:38AM (#6946362)
Wasn't there a similar study either in Freakonomics or Super Freakonomics? IIRC they boiled it down to level of education and how well the the children with uncommon names were doing. Of course it had anecdata of two brothers named Winner Doe/Jones/etc and Loser Doe/Jones/etc.
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Re:Why Your Name Matters by judk on Saturday December 21, 2013 @11:50AM (#6947082)
It was in the original book, and after the book sold millions of copies they walked back their exaggerated claims.
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