Re:Disproportionately Common Names by Profession
by notahacker on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:45PM
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As another commentator points out, (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881131 )the actual results appear to be a heavily human-edited "6 of the top 37" list. In which case most of the interesting patterns would reflect the biases of the people that compiled the chart.
Chances are that there are largely unsurprising gender/age/class/race biases in the full dataset too, but these have been selected for effect
(I bet most of the rest of the disproportionately common football coach names are pretty regular names for men born between 30 and 55 years ago with some of them possibly even having additional syllables, and similarly and wouldn't be surprised to find that Jim and Bill, for example, also featured high in the list of people disproportionately likely to be electrical engineers, possibly even above Eugene)
Chances are that there are largely unsurprising gender/age/class/race biases in the full dataset too, but these have been selected for effect (I bet most of the rest of the disproportionately common football coach names are pretty regular names for men born between 30 and 55 years ago with some of them possibly even having additional syllables, and similarly and wouldn't be surprised to find that Jim and Bill, for example, also featured high in the list of people disproportionately likely to be electrical engineers, possibly even above Eugene)