> Studies 1-5 showed that people are disproportionately likely to live in places whose names resemble their own first or last names (e.g., people named Louis are disproportionately likely to live in St. Louis).
replyWhen I lived in Austin, it seemed like a third of boys born were being named Austin. I presume many of them will end up living there as adults but not because of this particular bias, because they were raised there and have family’s there seems to be a more likely driver.
"Nominative determinism" is everywhere once you look for it. My vet's last name is McStay.
replyI just listened to an interview with Carl Trueman about his new book which criticizes transhumanism.
replySeems more likely this falls under the replication crisis umbrella. My wife's favorite numbers are my birthday (mm-dd), which is a small reason she fell in love with me. Neither of those numbers are related to her birthday. My favorite number(s) do not overlap with my birthday. Maybe my mm-dd values just aren't low enough, like 02-02?
reply> Studies 1-5 showed that people are disproportionately likely to live in places whose names resemble their own first or last names
replyThere are several cities in the US that share my last name. I don't live near any of them.
> Study 6 extended this finding to birthday number preferences.
D'oh!
My urologist, and I swear I'm not making this up, has the last name "Wiener".
replyMy friend M. Goode’s father was a urologist named Dr. P. Goode. For real.
replyReporting bias.
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