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Arselickocracy (arselickocracy.blogspot.com):
… Levitt and Dubner, my favourite Freakonomists, do somefantastic analysison how a name that screams your cultural, and in most instances, socio-economic beginnings, to the world, tends, regrettably, to portend a less than favourable life outcome, when contrasted with comparable subjects not so burdened. …

Arselickocracy (www.arselickocracy.com):
… Levitt and Dubner, my favourite Freakonomists, do somefantastic analysison how a name that screams your cultural, and in most instances, socio-economic beginnings, to the world, tends, regrettably, to portend a less than favourable life outcome, when contrasted with comparable subjects not so burdened. …

Parkside Q (parksideq.typepad.com):
… Ivy (If you don't know which one that is, Google can moisturize your situation). I don't say all this to brag or make myself appear any better off than anyone else in this life. I just wanted to highlight my background and my name (which, according tothis list …

BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS (kathmanduk2.wordpress.com):
… children born in California since 1961, over 40 percent of African-American females born in the mid-2000s have names not found at all in the white population; over 30 percent have names that are utterly unique even in the black population. Topping thelistof the most popular black names when the study was compiled were Imani, Ebony, Shanice, Aaliyah, and Precious. A previous study conducted at M.I.T. had already yielded the disturbing finding that employers are 50 percent more likely to interview job …

Maggie and Kent (maggieandkent.blogspot.com):
… Roneefa Wadine Unique names Lamborghini Ambria Chance Trinity Heaven At best, your child will be teased unmercifully. At worst you, and they, will look low-class and uneducated. Don't believe me? Just gohere. And for the record? I spent some time working with troubled teenage girls that had most of those names so I'm not just making them up. Also, don't name your kid Giovanni or Sergio. Those are just terrible, terrible names. …

Little Miss Brightside (www.littlemissbrightside.com):
… excel has something to do with their ethnic background as opposed to their individual life experiences. It denies the very plausible fact that the problem could be more of a class issue than a race issue. In fact, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubneralready disproved the belief that academic performance is related to race. To focus on the cultural or ethnic differences between children and to encourage separate schools is to legitimize a form of political segregation that will only lead to further issues down the road when generations of children grow up without really …

BlogHer Business '07 Speakers | BlogHer (blogher.org):
… D. Levitt cautions readers to not automatically deduce cause from correlation. It seems that in the case of ethnic names, some people have concluded that an ethnic name causes a child to be unsuccessful in life. Levitt says otherwise as discussed inthis 2005 Slate.comarticle: The data show that, on average, a person with a distinctively black name—whether it is a woman named Imani or a man named DeShawn—does have a worse life outcome than a woman named Molly or a man named Jake. But it isn't the fault of his …

DOPA: ''Suppose You Were An Idiot... | BlogHer (blogher.org):
… D. Levitt cautions readers to not automatically deduce cause from correlation. It seems that in the case of ethnic names, some people have concluded that an ethnic name causes a child to be unsuccessful in life. Levitt says otherwise as discussed inthis 2005 Slate.comarticle: The data show that, on average, a person with a distinctively black name—whether it is a woman named Imani or a man named DeShawn—does have a worse life outcome than a woman named Molly or a man named Jake. But it isn't the fault of his …

Slanted (librarianpants.blogspot.com):
… own name. Those just happen to be the names I feel their children would like to have. I'm entirely qualified to provide excellent baby names, because I've read Freakonomics, which includes a FASCINATING chapter on names. An excerpt of the chapter ishereon Slate. I, personally, have a very lovely name. I was not always fond of it, though. When I was about 4-years-old, I was enamored of the TV show Diff'rent Strokes and I wanted to be named Kimberly after the sister. I made …

The God Blog (jewishjournal.com):
… initial than when it does not (Study 5). These findings provide striking evidence that unconsciously desiring negative name-resembling performance outcomes can insidiously undermine the more conscious pursuit of positive outcomes.The last chapter ofFreakonomicsargued that people given "super-black" names, like the father who called his two sons Winner and Loser, or the girl named Shithead (pronounced "Shah-teed"), don't do worse because of their names but often because of life circumstances. But this study …

Maven on the Move (www.natashaj.com):
… Curtis, Wanda, Moon Unit, Leopold or Brittany anyone? A name can also tie you unmistakably to a particular area of the country, socioeconomic group or even race. Think I'm kidding? Check out this Slate article on white vs. black names for babies.http://www.slate.com/id/2116449/The title says it all. A Roshanda by Any Other Name: How do babies with super-black names fare? Even if you're not exactly sure what a super-black name means, you know it when you hear it: often lots of syllables, random capital letters and …

Junk Charts (junkcharts.typepad.com):
… Much of this angst can be traced to serious econometric studies that claim to have found cause-and-effect relationships between someone's name and their eventual success in life. Some of this research was highlighted in Freakonomics, forexample. My stance is that all such studies are dubious, there being innumerable confounding factors (socio-economic, genetic, cultural, luck, etc. etc.). In addition, the measured response can range from …

Museum of Hoaxes (www.museumofhoaxes.com):
… is a few years old, but it was new to me.) At first the article struck me as sounding too weird to be true. Why would a father name his son Loser? But apparently it's true. At least, it's been reported elsewhere by credible sources, such as in thisSlate.com articleby the Freakonomics authors. The story is that the father, Robert Lane, decided to call his son Winner, thinking it would give the kid a boost in life. Three years later he had another son, and on the spur of the moment decided to call him Loser. …

Museum of Hoaxes (museumofhoaxes.com):
… is a few years old, but it was new to me.) At first the article struck me as sounding too weird to be true. Why would a father name his son Loser? But apparently it's true. At least, it's been reported elsewhere by credible sources, such as in thisSlate.com articleby the Freakonomics authors. The story is that the father, Robert Lane, decided to call his son Winner, thinking it would give the kid a boost in life. Three years later he had another son, and on the spur of the moment decided to call him Loser. …

Bake Town, CA (baketown.blogspot.com):
… s future by what we name them? I mean, we expect to see names like Cody and Dallas in the rodeo finalists. You don’t expect to see Richard William III or a DeShawn. The idea caused me to do some research, which led me tothis article.I thought it was interesting. The discussion about names isn't exactly new. I have a very distinctive name. Let’s just say I didn’t have any trouble with other kids sharing the same name when I was in school. …

Harlem 26.2 (harlemrunner.blogspot.com):
… will be 7 or 8 Benita Johnson's and every one's going to be Black. The name "Benita Johnson" is on the same rung with LaShonda Washington and Shameequa Jones on the Negro-Name ladder. Am I lying? Ya'll be careful in naming your kids - in the bookFreakonomicsauthors Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner explored the impact of a child's first name being distinctively "Black". Here's another study showing what is characterized as a "resume burden" associated with too Black of a name. "Benita Johnson" isn't total …

Thingstosayaboutstuff (thingstosayaboutstuff.blogspot.com):
… If MLB teams recognize this and place greater value on comparable talent they deem more likely to fulfill potential and less likely to cause locker room disruptions, they are doing nothing more than protecting their investment. Likealmost everyone else, MLB general managers are rational actors. Were he not a supremely talented athlete, Gary Sheffield would likely be in jail blaming his problems on the man. Fortunately for Sheffield, he is sublimely talented even by the standards of professional …

Markmaking (markmaking.typepad.com):
… Amy, Claire, Emily, Katie / Imani, Ebony, Shanice, Aaliyah, Precious / Andrea, Whitney, Alicia, Kendra, Alexandria. Boy names: Jake, Connor, Tanner, Wyatt, Cody / DeShawn, DeAndre, Marquis, Darnell, Terrell / Vincent, George, Troy, Christian, Martin.Crossovers. …

Markmaking (markmaking.typepad.com):
… Girl names:Molly, Amy, Claire, Emily, Katie / Imani, Ebony, Shanice, Aaliyah, Precious / Andrea, Whitney, Alicia, Kendra, Alexandria. Boy names: Jake, Connor, Tanner, Wyatt, Cody / DeShawn, DeAndre, Marquis, Darnell, Terrell / Vincent, George, Troy, Christian, …

the way there (monicajackson.com):
… Book of the Month Club’s 345,000. A book club primarily for black readers would only work, of course, if blacks and whites had very different preferences — which, as we’ve seen with TV viewing habits andbaby names(to name a few), they plainly do. From the Freakononmics Blog …