If you\u2019re name is Aaron Abrams, this Sliver\u2019s for you.<\/p>\n
From the land of over-reaching research comes a doozy. The folks at Psychological Science Magazine have published a report suggesting that a person\u2019s initials may have a direct impact on their fate in life. They did an analysis of Major League Baseball records from 1913 to 2006, and noticed that players who have a first or last name starting with \u201cK\u201d had a higher likelihood to strike out (that\u2019s a K in baseball speak) than players with other initials. (We\u2019re thinking Dave Kingman\u2019s strikeout total alone may have caused the skew.) Furthermore, a study of graduate students\u2019 test scores reveals that people whose names start with C or D scored lower on tests than students whose names start with A or B.<\/p>\n
Are you creeped out? It\u2019s worse than you think. The research further suggests that the effect works in the negative, but not in the positive. Having a name tied to \u201ceasy to achieve negative outcomes\u201d may hurt you, but having initials tied to \u201chard-to-achieve positive outcomes\u201d may not help. So if you name your kid Ferdinand, you may want him to end up as a Financier, but he\u2019s more likely to be a Failure. (Or, more personally, \u201cMike Keeler\u201d is more likely to be a Mediocre Kleptomaniac than a Marketing Kingpin.) In other words, don\u2019t dream about what you want your kid to become, worry about what you DON\u2019T want your kid to be. Make a list of all the letters with possible negative connotations in life. \u00a0And don\u2019t use them!<\/p>\n
This is published research, so it must be true. Nevertheless, we had our doubts.<\/p>\n
Until we noticed the authors of the study are Joseph Simmons (\u201cJoke Scientist\u201d) and Leif Nelson (\u201cLamebrained Nincompoop\u201d).<\/p>\n
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