The correlation is obviously indirect, since names are correlated with age, social class, region and other demographics, and these are in turn correlated with c

The correlation is obviously indirect, since names are correlated with age, social class, region and other demographics, and these are in turn correlated with career choices. Once the stats were adjusted for the above, I suppose we'd end up with not much more but noise and some spurious correlations occassionally: http://twentytwowords.com/funny-graphs-show-correlation-between-completely-unrelated-stats-9-pictures/ http://twentytwowords.com/funny-graphs-show-correlation-betw...