Well, this explains it all, doesn’t it? The name your parents give you determines how you are viewed by others and what they will expect of you.
Based on our cursory reading of this study, it appears that his last name set Anthony Weiner on an inescapable path to be a complete dick.
Live Science has the penile particulars:
“The name you give your kid is sort of a proxy for a whole bunch of things in our culture,” study researcher John Waggoner of Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania told LiveScience. Names have been linked to many life choices, including what kind of work people do and how they donate to charity.
The study looked into whether people’s names affect what others expect of them.
The researchers asked a group of 89 undergraduate students (about half of whom were prospective teachers) to guess, on a scale of 1 (“not very successful”) to 10 (“very successful”) how they thought a student with a certain name would perform academically.
Participants tended to judge those with names that have been correlated with lower maternal education and socioeconomic status as low educational achievers, compared with the possessors of higher-status names.
“What future teachers expect is that Cody will do a lot worse in school, relatively, than Benjamin and Samuel,” Waggoner said. “The more things you have going for you, the better people expect you to do.”
Our interpretation: You cannot run from your fate. The name Weiner is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Unfortunately, this sets up a brand new category of Democrat victimhood: Namists.
“I can’t help being a complete tool. It’s my parents’ fault.”
Source: Live Science
