Posted by: Xinxin | 2010年04月30日

人如其名

以前看大概是Freakonomics的时候,里面有个研究是关于名字对性格包括职业的影响。比如印第安部落里的名叫“武士”的人就比较善武,名叫“智慧“的就比较喜欢思考。那个研究里面还说了英美人名字和职业的关系,比如,叫Dennis的人比平均更有可能是牙医,叫Lawyer或者Lawrence的人比平均更有可能是律师。

最近看报纸和做研究的时候发现两个名字和职业特别吻合的人
一个人姓English,是图书馆馆长。
一个人姓Waterbury,是研究Hydropolitics的专家。

我觉得特好玩儿,记录下来。

写这片日志的时候顺手google了下freakonomics的那个研究,虽然没找到,但是发现了下面这段话(请Alex/Madison同学注意了,呵呵):

Women in the legal profession with more masculine-sounding names, like Cameron
or Kelly, have better odds of becoming judges than
women with feminine names, according to a new study by Bentley
Coffey
and Patrick McLaughlin (gated; abstract
here).
The study focused on women in South Carolina, but as an ABA
Journal
article
reports, it may support the general theory
that women with masculine names have more successful law careers.

出处请见Freakonomics的NYT blog: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/call-me-bruce/


Responses

  1. 所以celine是不是可以研究时尚法的律师阿,哈哈

  2. Haha,那就好了。

  3. 某日我同另两个同学说起Alex/Madison,他们都大摇其头,表示这两个名字非常不像我。 他们说我应该起classy and sophisticated feminine name, 然后建议了Yvonne, Yvette, Sophia. What do you think? I\’m completely confused now :(

  4. Yvonne, Yvette都不错啊,和你中文名字也挺像的。不过你不是想要中性一点的名字吗?


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