I feel kind of embarrassed now for having not known about this bias until now. It doesn’t really surprise me, though: all my life I’ve noticed that I tend to like things that start with the letters “g” and “w”: fictional characters, place names, etc.. I’ve never really thought consciously “I like things that sound like my name”, but looking at my actual preferences I think it’s pretty clear that I do.
I feel kind of embarrassed now for having not known about this bias until now. It doesn’t really surprise me, though: all my life I’ve noticed that I tend to like things that start with the letters “g” and “w”: fictional characters, place names, etc.. I’ve never really thought consciously “I like things that sound like my name”, but looking at my actual preferences I think it’s pretty clear that I do.
Blink.
Now that you mention this… I’ve always liked “C” names, myself. C, of course, can be pronounced either as a “K” or as an “S”.
I’d known about the name bias for a while, and even used it as an example several times, and still didn’t realize my own bias until you said that.
Though then again… I also like “E” names, so it might just be coincidence. You’d expect there to be plenty of false positives in a group this large.