Friday, November 16, 2007

If you name your child Fred, does that mean he'll Fail French class?

Will the students at the top of your grade roll have higher grades?  I came upon this news item today and just had to post it. Drawn from marketing research, a couple of psychologists have found a connection between our behaviors and our names.  Among their examples is their finding that people named Dennis and Denise are more likely to be dentists.  So does that mean that your student named Ally Adams will be an A student?  

What are your thoughts?  

I'm not convinced here and my immediate thought is that I wonder what the p-value was for their findings .... I can't imagine that it was very small.

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Anonymous said...

Man, I must do very poorly with the initials P.S. or maybe it's pass/satisfactory and this is the reason for my success. My, this is dumb...