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Some time ago, I saw a paper when some scientists find that people often tends to have place of live and job which is somehow connected with their names eg. the

Some time ago, I saw a paper when some scientists find that people often tends to have place of live and job which is somehow connected with their names eg. there's more Denises who works as dentists or Louises in Louisiane. I also noticed that in my country (Poland) there's quite more people working in IT with names or surnames which begins on K (Polish word for computer is "komputer"), I'm the case.

kornakiewicz 12y ago
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/susie.pdf http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/susie.pd... - it's the paper. http://andrewgelman.com/2005/08/05/dennis_the_denv/ http://andrewgelman.com/2005/08/05/dennis_the_denv/ - short summary.
V-2 12y ago
> I also noticed that in my country (Poland) there's quite more people working in IT with names or surnames which begins on K (Polish word for computer is "komputer") You don't say... :) Perhaps because names starting with K are simply very common in Poland? ;) 1 in 6 out of 100 most popular last names starts with K. And quite more IT employees than whom exactly? Presidents of the country? Since 1989 Poland had: Jaruzelski, Walesa, Kwasniewski, Kaczynski and Komorowski... Among prime ministers (since the 90s) about 1 in 5 had either first name or last name that begins with K :)
- kornakiewicz 12y ago
  Okay, maybe you're right and I'm just biased with serial killer who killed few software developers with K-name living in Kraków Polish article: http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114873,9855837,Krakow__Zaginal_Pawel_Krasny__W_tle_mroczna__miejska.html http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114873,9855837,Krak...
  - V-2 12y ago
    Wow, now that's interesting :) By the way, believe it or not, I do work as a programmer (in Poland), and my first name does indeed start with K :) Not the last name though, so I feel safe. While the serial killer theory could boil down to a statistical oddity, it reminded me of this novel by Lem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Investigation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Investigation

kornakiewicz 12y ago

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/susie.pdf http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/susie.pd... - it's the paper. http://andrewgelman.com/2005/08/05/dennis_the_denv/ http://andrewgelman.com/2005/08/05/dennis_the_denv/ - short summary.

V-2 12y ago

> I also noticed that in my country (Poland) there's quite more people working in IT with names or surnames which begins on K (Polish word for computer is "komputer") You don't say... :) Perhaps because names starting with K are simply very common in Poland? ;) 1 in 6 out of 100 most popular last names starts with K. And quite more IT employees than whom exactly? Presidents of the country? Since 1989 Poland had: Jaruzelski, Walesa, Kwasniewski, Kaczynski and Komorowski... Among prime ministers (since the 90s) about 1 in 5 had either first name or last name that begins with K :)

kornakiewicz 12y ago
Okay, maybe you're right and I'm just biased with serial killer who killed few software developers with K-name living in Kraków Polish article: http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114873,9855837,Krakow__Zaginal_Pawel_Krasny__W_tle_mroczna__miejska.html http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114873,9855837,Krak...
- V-2 12y ago
  Wow, now that's interesting :) By the way, believe it or not, I do work as a programmer (in Poland), and my first name does indeed start with K :) Not the last name though, so I feel safe. While the serial killer theory could boil down to a statistical oddity, it reminded me of this novel by Lem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Investigation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Investigation