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Apparently they don't state what "disproportionately" is supposed to mean. If that is indeed the case I doubt much valid insight can be derived from this chart.

teamhappy 12y ago
"In our sample of two and a half million people, a whopping 1.9% of Arnolds are accountants. Contrast that with just 0.55% of Shanes. Arnolds therefore appear to have a much higher tendency to be accountants than Shanes." http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/12/30/names-by-profession/ http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/12/30/names-by-professi... You see where this is going. If you correlate the data with the popularity of names in general, you'll find that Arnold is a much more popular name than Shane ...
- kornakiewicz 12y ago
  Well, you're not right. Almost 2% of Arnolds is more than 0.5% of Shanes, no matter how much there're Arnolds and Shanes. If you take 100 Arnolds and 100 Shanes there will be (statistically) 2 Arnolds and "half of Shane".
  - teamhappy 12y ago
    > Well, you're not right. I think I am, but I might be wrong on that one too. Given a pool of 10 people to hire from where 6 people are named Arnold and 4 are named shawn Shawn, wouldn't you expect that same relation to show in a specific profession? You can, of course, go ahead and compare those relations. So, if there only were 5 race car drivers in the world and 4 of them were named Arnold that would be noteworthy (as opposed to 60% of them, which is what you'd expect). Please let me know if I got something wrong. --- Somebody just posted an article stating the numbers where actually correlated with the frequency they are used. I'm not sure how they did it though given that those numbers change over time.
    - Bedon292 12y ago
      I think their data is going the other direction. It is not 1.9% of Accountants are Arnolds. Its 1.9% of Arnolds are Accountants. You would expect that the percent of each profession by name should be the same. So if there are 25 professions, then within any given name you should have 4% going to each professions. So 4% of Arnolds should be a profession, and 4% of Shawns should also have the same profession. That is not what the data shows though. Within any given name there is a tendency towards the professions the chart shows. This definitely does not account for location, birthdays, etc. But it is still interesting.
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teamhappy 12y ago

"In our sample of two and a half million people, a whopping 1.9% of Arnolds are accountants. Contrast that with just 0.55% of Shanes. Arnolds therefore appear to have a much higher tendency to be accountants than Shanes." http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/12/30/names-by-profession/ http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/12/30/names-by-professi... You see where this is going. If you correlate the data with the popularity of names in general, you'll find that Arnold is a much more popular name than Shane ...

kornakiewicz 12y ago
Well, you're not right. Almost 2% of Arnolds is more than 0.5% of Shanes, no matter how much there're Arnolds and Shanes. If you take 100 Arnolds and 100 Shanes there will be (statistically) 2 Arnolds and "half of Shane".
- teamhappy 12y ago
  > Well, you're not right. I think I am, but I might be wrong on that one too. Given a pool of 10 people to hire from where 6 people are named Arnold and 4 are named shawn Shawn, wouldn't you expect that same relation to show in a specific profession? You can, of course, go ahead and compare those relations. So, if there only were 5 race car drivers in the world and 4 of them were named Arnold that would be noteworthy (as opposed to 60% of them, which is what you'd expect). Please let me know if I got something wrong. --- Somebody just posted an article stating the numbers where actually correlated with the frequency they are used. I'm not sure how they did it though given that those numbers change over time.
  - Bedon292 12y ago
    I think their data is going the other direction. It is not 1.9% of Accountants are Arnolds. Its 1.9% of Arnolds are Accountants. You would expect that the percent of each profession by name should be the same. So if there are 25 professions, then within any given name you should have 4% going to each professions. So 4% of Arnolds should be a profession, and 4% of Shawns should also have the same profession. That is not what the data shows though. Within any given name there is a tendency towards the professions the chart shows. This definitely does not account for location, birthdays, etc. But it is still interesting.
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