<p>Whoa, talk about…coincidence!</p>
<p>D’s name starts with C and boyfriend’s named Zach. This explains everything :)</p>
<p>I guess my D gets an “E” for effort!</p>
<p>Soozievt: There are a number of men named “Yale” (probably some women, too, judging by the propensity of adopting mens’ names for women). Klezmer musician Yale Strom, for example. Most of them have nothing to do with the university but were used to give English names to Jewish boys who were named for someone whose Jewish name began with the letter Y.</p>
<p>Or “Yale” is a misspelling in English of “Yael”, a traditional Hebrew name.</p>
<p>Yael is the name my dear friend, a reconstructionist rabbi, gave to D as her middle name at her naming ceremony. I am completely non-observant and Marcia was very dedicated to including D in her flock. She left her first name alone and said it was a question, “Who is God?” Middle name was the answer – God is God.</p>
<p>If you do enough studies, you can prove anything. Posts 4 and 15 give great examples of possible confounding variables.</p>
<p>Ya that may be the most rediculous thing I’ve ever read.</p>
<p>Newsweek should start “proving” Bigfoot and the Chupacabra.</p>
<p>My son is an R, gets all A’s, and has a number of interests that all start with P, such that we tease that he’s into many P-disciplines: poetry, psychoanalysis, particle physics, psychology, photography, philosophy…if it started with a P, he probably took the class or was involved in the EC. </p>
<p>He did end up at an R school, though. <em>grin</em></p>
<p>Did someone get paid to research this?<br>
Nice work if you can get it.</p>
<p>I’m a huge believer in the power of names, but come on. If they picked a few other letters to take averages from, they would find that (duh) they all fluctuate from the mean a bit.</p>
<p>(smile)</p>
<p>We considered naming our first child “Doctor” and that way he/she would not even need to attend med school or earn a doctorate.</p>
<p>Not really…</p>
<p>Oldest son’s name begins with a mid-alpha and went to one of the top Ivy’s (for what that’s worth); middle son’s name begins with beginning-alpha and went to a top 50 school. </p>
<p>Go figure.</p>
<p>I know someone with the initials VD. :surprise:
DD’s name begins with a letter that’s closer to F, but she was a straight A student in high school. :)</p>
<p>Oops. It was supposed to be :eek: Still don’t get these smilies right!</p>
<h1>1 in our class is Zach</h1>
<h1>2 in our class is Alyssa.</h1>
<p>Go figure.</p>
<p>In regard to the kids being named after schools, there is kid named Stanford in my physics class and Lowell in my psych class. </p>
<p>Lowell, which is the high school I attend, is the best school in San Francisco and it’s really hard to get in.</p>
<p>The most likely candidate for valedictorian in our class has initials W.Y.</p>
<p>Oops.</p>
<p>When my brothers and I cleared out of our parents’ home to attend college, they replaced us with 2 dogs. (Since we were 3 kids, this left us to puzzle out the math.) </p>
<p>My dad named one dog “Brandeis” and the other “Darrow” after two legal minds he admired greatly.</p>
<p>My parents were college professors in a small New England town. One day, as Dad walked the doggies and called them eacg by name, a student stopped him.</p>
<p>“Dr. B, I’ve heard of Brandeis, but where is Darrow University?”</p>
<p>Chortle, chuckling dad came home with a good new story.</p>
<p>SERIOUSLY! Who paid for this research? Did we run out of cancer to cure of something?</p>