Thursday, December 06, 2007

What's in a name?

Apparently, your name decides how likely you are to be a wealthy and successful individual. ABC7 carried a story about it, so I decided to check out this recently published research paper. They did 5 studies and realised that people whose names begin with A or B have a chance of getting a higher GPA than people with C or D. And getting into a better law school, choosing a partner whose name begins with A or B, and so on.

Baloney! But then I immediately googled for any studies done for people who's name start with "S" and their likelihood of finding fame, success and a buxom blonde (metaphor, though not particularly averse to the literal either.)

Guess what? People with first names that start with S are sensitive, solitary, sagacious, sensual and often successful. It's sound research, the website claims. Now there's a reason to be happy, me says.

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