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That's Nominative Determinism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism Think someone called Cr
by radicalbyte 12y ago
That's Nominative Determinism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Think someone called Crapper being a toilet salesman, or Smith being a Blacksmith, Baker being a Baker etc.
I.e. a funny non-science based upon misunderstanding historical coincidence (profession being used as surnames, family marketing name being used as a crass synoniem for something else) with causation.
- emodendroket 12y agoWhat? No it isn't. They're talking about given names, for one thing. For another, unless I missed it, they aren't positing a reason for this; they are simply saying which given names have more people in a given profession than would be expected based on averages.
- jen729w 12y agoCovered heavily by New Scientist over the years (with tongue usually firmly in cheek). https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=nominative%20determinism%20site%3Anewscientist.com https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=...