Disproportionately Common Names by Profession
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Disproportionately Common Names by Profession
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#2Apparently they don't state what "disproportionately" is supposed to mean. If that is indeed the case I doubt much valid insight can be derived from this chart.
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#3> People with these names are more likely than others to have these professions.
Shouldn't it say: "People with these names happen to be in those professions more often than others"?
Anyway, there are a couple of fun ones in there, but I'll let you figure those out yourself. Unfortunately neither my name nor my profession are covered — I'm not quite sure what to make of that. :/
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They use the same language in their blog post: "Arnolds therefore appear to have a much higher tendency to be accountants than Shanes." That's just wrong, no? By wrong I just mean intentionally misleading. I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that they sell an app that helps you find names for you babies though.
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#4Where are the numbers? It would be interesting if it wasn't so vague.
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#5After we tackled gender inequalities, we can move on to name inequalities. How about introducing name-quotas, that ought to fix the problem.
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#6http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/12/30/names-by-professi...
Direct link to the blog that goes in to a few details of how they work out the names.
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#7Interesting choice of professions. Race car drivers and musicians seem to have similar names. Other than that I have no idea what to do with this information.
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#8Apparently they don't state what "disproportionately" is supposed to mean. If that is indeed the case I doubt much valid insight can be derived from this chart.
"In our sample of two and a half million people, a whopping 1.9% of Arnolds are accountants. Contrast that with just 0.55% of Shanes. Arnolds therefore appear to have a much higher tendency to be accountants than Shanes."
http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/12/30/names-by-professi...
You see where this is going. If you correlate the data with the popularity of names in general, you'll find that Arnold is a much more popular name than Shane ...
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#9This is worthless unless they correct for age. Which they most likely don't, since age is not even mentioned in the post.
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#10Here's an interesting article about how names could have long lasting effects: http://www.livescience.com/6569-good-bad-baby-names-long-las...
Also, many cultures obsess over giving the child a good name with a good meaning as they think it determines their future.