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Re:No-fly list takes legal hit by derefr on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:37AM (#7062280)
I believe what you're referring to was dubbed[1] "nominative determinism" -- the idea that people feel a (statistically-detectable) attraction to careers befitting their name.

The most charitable thing you can say about it: it's not been disproven as of yet.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9664000/9664697....

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Re:No-fly list takes legal hit by thaumasiotes on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @03:59AM (#7062324)
> It's not been disproven as of yet.

Well, if you're committed to the idea that it must be true, I guess it hasn't been disproven... but it's been very, very severely discredited...

See e.g. http://andrewgelman.com/2014/01/10/look-whos-3-years-date-wh...

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