Intriguing… I can imagine that having a certain name may have an effect on people
(as illustrated by the late Johnny Cash), but this is weird… Couldn’t there
be some alternative explanation?
E.g., maybe there’s a regional preference for certain names, and they picked
the regional preferred ones that happened to fit the desired pattern (Study
1)? Similarly for study 7, where names are correlated with with social
stratum, year of birth, which also influence occupation.
For some of the studies they picked very specific examples—hardware v.s.
roofing or only a couple of names; could there be some confirmation bias?
Anyway, only guessing here—some of the results are harder to explain. But I
think there could still be some more boring explanation related to the set up of the studies.
Intriguing… I can imagine that having a certain name may have an effect on people (as illustrated by the late Johnny Cash), but this is weird… Couldn’t there be some alternative explanation?
E.g., maybe there’s a regional preference for certain names, and they picked the regional preferred ones that happened to fit the desired pattern (Study 1)? Similarly for study 7, where names are correlated with with social stratum, year of birth, which also influence occupation.
For some of the studies they picked very specific examples—hardware v.s. roofing or only a couple of names; could there be some confirmation bias?
Anyway, only guessing here—some of the results are harder to explain. But I think there could still be some more boring explanation related to the set up of the studies.