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Re:Why Your Name Matters by ExpiredLink on Saturday December 21, 2013 @06:04AM (#6946388)
> A rare name, the professors surmised, had a negative psychological effect on its bearer.

No, no, no! Because correlation is not causation. Period. The prevailing social science nowadays isn't psychology but pseudology.

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Re:Why Your Name Matters by kevincennis on Saturday December 21, 2013 @06:21AM (#6946425)
That's referring to a 1948 study though. The author is just providing background and setting the stage. It's not the research that the article is actually about.

Hardly seems worth getting upset over.

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Re:Why Your Name Matters by hbags on Saturday December 21, 2013 @08:11AM (#6946575)
Many readers on this site love to attack research by reading an article about the research or reading just the abstract, and then assuming that the researcher was slightly dumber than algae. This is just another example of that particular blend of arrogance and ignorance.
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