I knew a guy once name Chad on Xbox Live, he was a vet, who returned to the US post his service & worked in security. Great guy, incredibly disciplined and I've had some memorable moments playing Bad Company 3 & GTA IV w/ him. Can't trace him down unfortunately, so Chad my man, if you're seeing this, say Hi.
Petra, actually. Which, being the feminine form of Peter, means "rock," and really needs to make a comeback among type A personality girls. Petras are generally stronger than Peters.
Here in Germany (or at least the part I live in), "Kevin's" are stereotyped as troublemakers and jerks, and literally all Kevin's I have met lived up to that. Growing up with a name that has bad connotations causing that wouldn't surprise me. Now I'm a bit worried about people who are genuinely named Karen...
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Nope it is but not a good one. We kinda have a saying here: "Kevin ist kein Name sondern eine Diagnose" meaning that Kevin is not a name but a diagnosis. The female version of Kevin is probably Chantal. So if you hate your kid and live in Germany just call it Kevin/Chantal and watch the poor thing suffer for the rest of their life.
RaymondHng Having lived my entire life being called Abraham, I can tell you that I could adopt that as my first name and it would be totally normal haha
Shaunak De Or Airbus (lol), or Embraer (cool name tho, think if your name was Embraer), or maybe if he gets rad, the name would be ATR. And if he wants to change surname, Cessna would be an obivious choice.
Not only generations, but also socio-economic status and geography. Even amongst stereotypically ‘White’ names, derived from Britain, you are going to get weak correlations with the background of the parents. Richards may have slightly richer parents on average than Jacks, or more likely to come from one place or another. Richer people and people from different places look subtly different in most contexts. The effect wouldn’t be huge, but we meet and attach so much significance to names it would likely unconsciously effect our guesses.
1:18 Actually the probability that you get all three by chance is 1 in 6, not 1 in 3. The possibilities are {ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, CBA}, only one of which is correct.
John, I concluded the same and left a comment along those lines prior to seeing yours. And the other responder to your comment understands statistics and fractions even less than the author of the script.
@@daveriley6310 What did you just say? And anyways, obviously it would be a 1 in 6 chance, mathematically speaking. But I was saying that it would be a 1 in 3 chance, taking account of the person's thinking. We are used to the names being arranged like that. (The effect only breaks when you actually know 1 of the 3 people)
Yes, if it was a random pick that would be correct, but like he explained throughout the video, people look like there names a lot of the time, it has a psychological effect, that is why the chance is so high.
Ha, Kevin has a similar stereotype here in Mexico, the stereotype is that he's a criminal, but the most laughed at name here is Brian, if Kevin is seen as a criminal, the Brian is the gang leader or some thing like that, if your name is Brian or Kevin here in Mexico, you will be seen as a criminal and if you're not one, you'll be made fun of for having that name.
Sealand I got so confused because you replied to a comment I left a year ago, and I had no clue what I had been talking about, nevermind what you were talking about. I love old comments. They’re little snapshots in time.
FutureNow you're right!!! When I was reading your name I automatically pronounced it in a Spanish accent, and then I read the next bit and I was like "WTF!!!".
I was 'this close' to naming my first born Kerzlonda Twiddletoes-- after his father of course, but we went with our 2nd choice. We didn't want him to miss out on suvienier name liscence plate keychains.
omegadan a friend of mine is called Viola and plays the violin. Says her mother and grandmother both have the name Viola and also play the violin. Spooky.
EpicClone5082 If I owned a progressive ISP company I would have my servers scan every packet and change Ajit to Traitor whenever it occurred, just to make the point that his new rules MAKE THAT LEGAL.
I feel like the higher than expected number of 'Georgias' in Georgia, and to a lesser extent the other cities discussed, is more likely because of parents naming their children after the state rather than Georgias moving there (although it's probably still a minor factor).
Mycel My Post had NOTHING to do with heroin. I was citing an ACTUAL TV AD for a certain make and model of automobile. I hate having to explain punch lines, but for you: the older child learned that she was named after the CITY in which her parents (a “normal” married couple, as far as we know) conceived her. But her baby SISTER was named for the kind of CAR in which ... they may have been re-enacting their high school memories. NOW do you get it? Oh, I just noticed you were responding to my EARLIER post. The song “Sweet Georgia Brown” is normally assumed to refer to a woman the singer admired. If there was any drug reference, it was so well hidden that, after the Harlem Globetrotters used it as background music for their basketball shows, it has become identified in mainstream media with basketball. In the 1970s, Mel Brooks and his wife Anne Bancroft produced, directed, and starred in a remake of Jack Benny’s wartime dark humor movie “To Be or Not to Be,” about a Vaudeville theater in Warsaw whose owners run a scam on the Nazi occupiers, including Benny’s/Brooks’ character impersonating Hitler, to get a Free Polish pilot, their theater staff (Jews, Poles, and at least one gay man), and themselves to freedom. The Brooks version of the movie begins with the couple on stage, singing and dancing, and the song is Sweet Georgia Brown, IN POLISH! Nothing in there about drugs!
What's probably still a minor factor? Because people will move to cities with their own name, or because parents naming their children are more likely to name them after the place that they are in?
People moving to cities with their own name would still be a minor factor. It just think that parents naming their children after the place they live is a greater factor :)
I actually have multiple nicknames and different groups of people in my life call me a different name. My classmates and new people I meet call me by mi middle name; my close friends call me by a nickname from my middle name; my parents call me by my first name (actually they're the only ones who do that), and my mother's side of the family just calls me by my childhood nickname. It seems and sounds like a mess, but I guess at the end of the day if you truly know who you are then you don't care that much the way people call you.
Wouldn't the conclusion also require that kids do not have similar paths as their parents? As in a professors child is more likely to go down the same path as the parent, while the parent is less likely to call the child "chad", because it's a name not really associated with professors.
I also think with the places with your name thing, it's can also be parents naming their kids Louis because they live in St. Louis, also making it disproportionate.
Good point, but the video talks about how your name influences you regardless of what life you are born into. If your parents are professors but they, for some reason, give you the name "Adolf Hitler" then you are quite likely to have a difficult time regardless of your social status at birth. At the same time, if you are born to a poor family but your name is William. You are more likely (than most other names) to outgrow your poor status. And finally, not all names are equal on a global scale. If your name is Herschel and you are born in Syria then you are quite likely to be or have been beheaded.
Could some of this not be attributed to the fact that certain names are more popular in certain socio-economic groups and subcultures, and children born into those groups and cultures are more likely to act in accordance with their associated parental culture and class?
You say that like it somehow invalidates the concept. Parents who want their children to rise above their socioeconomic class will often give them names that they feel will help them do so. And it often works. Most likely self-fulfilling prophecy is the most salient explanation for the phenomenon, but culture does play into it too.
TheVideoGamingChannel Same. I reckon we thought the same thing, Jacks are more western, or wild. Bobs are the commoners. Like average Joe or average Bob. Richards are more.... rich. That guy was wearing a suit.
Yeah, I mixed those two up as well, seemingly for the same reason. Though I hesitated a bit afterward, and thought I might have. Maybe I'd have thought differently if I'd been asked who was "Robert" and who was "Rick" or "Dick".
What about parents choosing names that reflect themselves, when the parents then pass their traits down to their children, through the bringing up of the children?
This looks like a massive correlation vs causation misjudgement. Don't you think that people with rich sounding names are more likely to succeed because they come from a rich family, rather than because their names urge them to? For example, people with names affiliated to poor families are much less likely to pass exams than the ones with fancy names, the statistics are very clear. According to this video, it would seem to be because their name pressured them to study less...
What about certain names being more popular in certain social climates? So a name that is more seen with professors could be more popular with parents that come from families that have more academics. For me, that sounds more or at least just as plausible as people living up to their names.
Joris Exactly what I was thinking. I have no idea what my name is supposed to live up to, and I'm sure that's the case for many other people. That makes it hard for the self-fulfilling prophesy theory to actually work out.
This is interesting because my friends had a game where we'd look up our names on urban dictionary and see if they matched us and 90% of the time they did.
I feel like this video doesn't go into nearly enough depth, and does sound surprisingly like pseudoscience to me. Are people named Chad less likely to become professors because they're living up to societal expectations based on their name, or is it because the name Chad is more common in communities where people are less likely to because of (for example) socioeconomic reasons? Are people named Georgia REALLY more likely to move to Georgia, or are their parents just naming them after the state they were born in?
George Meadway you’re getting it wrong, the name of the channel is also a self-fulfilling prophecy, turning out that is not as interesting as it should be.
It makes sense. If you name your kid "Dinkledwarf McBumnugget" that kid will probably end up being a serial killer because every moment spent in school will be absolute torture that will breed a lifetime of resentment toward both authority (parents) and others. An extreme example surely, but it proves a point. Names have power over us because they literally identify and define us. We see other people with our names and society puts a subtle amount of pressure on us to live up to our namesake in those people. We also get treated differently because of our names. If the same woman sends in job applications with the names "Jennifer" and "Shaniqua" with everything else being the same, "Jennifer" will most likely get more consideration because "Shaniqua" has some negative connotations associated with it. It's like meeting someone named "Hitler". You know that kid is troubled.
This. Your name is chosen by your parents, so it's generally based on their social, geographical and cultural environment. For a quick example, someone named 'Charles' could be more likely to come from a more upper/middle class background than a 'Steven' and therefore have different opportunities. Not that either name represents any particular class, but the chances are the choice was made based on the parents' preferences. Therefore heavily influenced by the family background, which is totally out of the person's control, and nothing to do with societal expectations. In the end, it's an almost impossible theory to prove due to the amount of variables.
With the "Jennifer" and "Shaqifar" thing, it is not the names that have the power but the social circumstance that they imply. Honestly, it is hard to be convinced by this argument except in extreme cases like "Hitler". Even in those cases, you'd think the fact that their parents are insane would have something to do with how terrible their lives are. Between "Bob" and "Jack", it is terribly hard to attribute the differences to the name rather than the name to the social group of the parents.
It is amazing how names can make a difference to a person. A name can define the identity of a person or at times, the person can make the name extra special.
Freakonomics anyone? Also, I do take some issue with your conclusions. It is possible that people of a certain socioeconomic class choose names specific to their socioeconomic class. With redistribution of people amongst socioeconomic classes not being 100%, you would have people with high socioeconomic status having certain names due to them having been born to high socioeconomic status and not their name giving them higher socioeconomic status.
Got them all correct too. I thought Bob sounded like some car salesman smile, Richard was a more aristocratic heritage, and Jack more free spirit artist/adventurer. Sometimes I feel a dissonance if the name and face doesn't match.
The video is nonsense, as should be clear from the spouting random words unashamedly at the beginning?! (not saying the uncited paper: "We Look Like Our Names: The Manifestation of Name Stereotypes in Facial Appearance" is but at the very least read it yourselves rather than listen to what someone else tells you it says...) Anyway Bob's name isn't "Bob" it's actually "Robert" (ie. he chooses to be called "Bob") and satistically people that got it right are more likely to comment/agree with you here, in a conversation that is sounding alot like the pseudo-scientific blood type superstition.
an "outie" could be that the initial surgery to make the naval an "innie" failed. I.e. a little hernia before the sutures have healed.To fix it later, unless the person is experiencing medical problems, insurance companies would likely consider it cosmetic surgery. And yes, pregnancy is also a huge cause of ".outies". Albeit temporary most often. Probably just as well that someone that has an "outie" is not on your radar. You seem kind of shallow.
@@diana3599 some people can't stand the sight of blood, some people can't stand looking at spiders, some people can't stand outies, some people can't stand r/slash Karens
Whether a belly button is innie or outie during pregnancy depends on if the baby is laying with its back to the front of the belly (forcing the navel out because the baby's spine is hard), or if the baby is laying differently (allowing the navel to sink in) The most common resting position for a navel during pregnancy is outie because the baby's head, spine, and sometimes even feet force it out, and in late trimesters it can be constantly like that. It'll usually go back in after the baby is born.
granbulljan It’s more directly a cultural bias than a classist one, but it does cut into class culture. Homeless folk have a slightly different culture than the lower middle class, then the upper middle, and the top tier with more offshoots there. A name is partially dependent on where you start life. It can be a prophecy or future determined by where you begin.
Please note that the probability for guessing all three names correctly is NOT 1/3 but instead 1/6. When the first name is guessed right, the remaining chance is 1/2 so the total chance is: 1/2 * 1/3 --> 1/6
I think he was referring to the chance of guessing them as individuals, based on the 3 available choices, instead of nailing that guess 3 times in a row. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt here.
Also one other way names affect my daily life: Being the first in my class' name list You don't know how many times I've been "late" just because my name is first on the list.
@PowderSnom There was a guy in my class for 6 years whose last name was Aalto so I kinda witnessed that struggle too. -(I was the first on the list after I changed schools)-
Now I'm going to change my name to Kerzlonda so I can comment a big essay on why I'm set out to be amazing because my name is Kerzlonda. Where my Kerzlondas at?
Louis Gillet that's the French pronunciation but we don't speak French so people are generally named Lewis (although some are Louis like French). Older places have the older pronunciation. It really depends on the person, because they could be named either way.
Yes, actually. Americans named any variation of Lewis tend to pronounce them all the same. Except Luis. That's always pronounced like it is in Spanish.
The names could have been randomly jumbled combinations of hieroglyphics and 1 in 6 people would correctly match them. That is contrary to the 1 in 3 that this extremely poor presentation posed.
The ancient Romans believed that names were the equivelent of destiny and would name there children after a certain job they wanted there children to fufill in life, such as naming them teacher or soldier, now we know it to be true.
Garrett Allen while i don't think it's neccesarily completely true,but in their times i think it's very obvious why that would be completely true almost all the time,if we think about it,right now the reason there's a small correlation is because there's a small vague connection between certain names like peter and concepts like success But if you were named "teacher" like in the times of the romans,you'd grow up your entire life being called teacher,knowing that you should be a teacher and readying up to be so
I actually got Bob and Richard switched. Also, I'm doubtful. It could simply be that different people are more likely to name their children different things, and we attach the bias of those origins to the people who are produced from them. For example, more intelligent people might be disproportionately likely to give their children certain names. Their child is on average going to be more intelligent than typical, so they may tend to behave differently and have different preferences based on that and cultural narratives of how the intelligent act and what they like. Similarly, are the people in Georgia or St. Louis named those things there by choice, or were they born there? Seems to me being born there would make you abnormally likely to be named that thing.
Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong. Names probably do influence you somewhat, but you shouldn't go too far in that direction without considering alternative explanations.
Your odds of matching all 3 names is not 1/3. Your odds are 1/6. Easy way is to list the sample space. We'll simplify by naming them A, B, and C and they have the professions of 1, 2, and 3 respectively. A1B2C3, A1C2B3, A2B1C3, A2B3C1, A3B1C2, A3B2C1. As we can see, only the first of the 6 options is correct. Mathematically this can be shown as 1/3 * 1/2 * 1/1 = 1/6. Basically the odds of matching the first name is 1/3 (A1-A2-A3). This leaves you with two possibilities B2C3 and B3C2, 1/2 of which are correct. If you choose B2 then you are guaranteed to choose C3 hence the 1/1.
Now if they could work any profession even if someone else already was, then our sample space would be dramatically larger and not worth listing here. Mathematically, it could be solved as 1/3 * 1/3 * 1/3 = 1/27. Each name having a 1/3 chance of randomly being paired correctly.
I remember hearing that boys with names typically considered more feminine are more likely to become trouble makers and bullies and there was a bit at my school called Stacey who was like the biggest trouble maker in my school.
If you name your kid "Chad" you probably do not expect them to become a rocket scientist.
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Not many because chad is an English name, not an African one.
You expect them to become some immature youtuber who does reaction videos.
huntcheerio haha you got him there
I knew a guy once name Chad on Xbox Live, he was a vet, who returned to the US post his service & worked in security.
Great guy, incredibly disciplined and I've had some memorable moments playing Bad Company 3 & GTA IV w/ him.
Can't trace him down unfortunately, so Chad my man, if you're seeing this, say Hi.
At least you know he's gonna have a weird triangle hair cut and be better than someone named Virgin
Fun fact: there are more male CEOs named Peter than there are female CEOs, period. So you have a daughter and want her to be a CEO, name her Peter.
Troodon good idea
Petra, actually. Which, being the feminine form of Peter, means "rock," and really needs to make a comeback among type A personality girls. Petras are generally stronger than Peters.
Okay, I laughed at this one.
Might be a little late... hey but my name is Peter so screw my mom I'm going to be a CEO and make billions. Take the family
Troodon lol
Here in Germany (or at least the part I live in), "Kevin's" are stereotyped as troublemakers and jerks, and literally all Kevin's I have met lived up to that. Growing up with a name that has bad connotations causing that wouldn't surprise me. Now I'm a bit worried about people who are genuinely named Karen...
Didn't know Germany had Kevin's...I'm so used to it being an American name.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Nope it is but not a good one. We kinda have a saying here: "Kevin ist kein Name sondern eine Diagnose" meaning that Kevin is not a name but a diagnosis. The female version of Kevin is probably Chantal. So if you hate your kid and live in Germany just call it Kevin/Chantal and watch the poor thing suffer for the rest of their life.
The name Kevin means "handsome birth." It's generally accepted that good babies grow up to be a handful.
I have an uncle Kevin (US) who was an absolute menace as a child
The same in Latin America, Kevin, and also brayan wich is stereotyped as a criminal/thug
So _that's_ why I like trains so much...
Thomas Joosten HAHAHA nice one
😂💯
Ohhh I get it lol
Can you not
Thomas Joosten chocho
If you are self-conscious about your name.. Just remember that there is a guy out the called grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.
Lmao i have heard that name on nazi comedian clip
I just figured that kind of name was normal for Polish people
I Attempted To Pronounce It. I Think It's Something Like Gregors Burzekchizishchikyevits
@@m3al571 You don't.
sounds really Polish
I thought Richard was the businessman , Jack was the cowboy and Bob was the third guy
Same-
Me too
Same
Same!
Same
My name is Lincoln... which naturally means I’ll be President someday.
His first name was Abraham.
Lincoln Riddle I expect you to beat Kanye In 2020 President Lincoln
Juan Cena unfortunately, I won’t be old enough until 2028. But when the day comes, I’ll be there to beat out the next celeb hahaha
RaymondHng Having lived my entire life being called Abraham, I can tell you that I could adopt that as my first name and it would be totally normal haha
hahaha I am dead
I’m switching my name to Elon
Will Hey, give me my name back!
Will Roth you can have it back when I legally change my name to Elongated Muskets
Will Weren't those the ghost guns of the 18th century?
no. keep your name. Unless your real name isn't William, because William E Boeing is way more significant
@@crazygamer-um1ey than elon musk?
HAI: “your name is attached to you as your arm”
Armless people: “ Wait, who am I again?”
😂😂😂😂
Welp, time to change my name to *Kerzlonda.*
No need! Just have 15 kids and name them all Kerzlonda so they can make tons of money for you!
@@SomeRandomDudee Stonks
@@SomeRandomDudee Kerzlonda sounds like someone that would have 15 kids, but none of them are making any money.
Okay KERZLONDA
HAI is probably naming his kid Boeing...
Shaunak De Or Airbus (lol), or Embraer (cool name tho, think if your name was Embraer), or maybe if he gets rad, the name would be ATR.
And if he wants to change surname, Cessna would be an obivious choice.
He/she can play with Real Life Lore's kid Toyota.
Steve Lovelace it's probably gonna be corrola tho lol
Shabbir Naqvi Wrong channel mate lol.
Bombardier packs more bang though
"Your name is as attached to you as your arm"
me, who has legally changed my name twice: "frick, better tape these arms down"
What's your name now?
Why did u change ur name?
ac
@Bingus Worshiper ac?
@@MakakorMurtero ac.
My heart goes out to all the Twittletoes.
my name is twittletoes :(
(xd jk)
Twiddletoes
Twittertoes
This video misses one HUGE thing. Names come and go by generation and certain generations are going to act differently than others.
Karens: ???
X Æ 12
Not only generations, but also socio-economic status and geography. Even amongst stereotypically ‘White’ names, derived from Britain, you are going to get weak correlations with the background of the parents. Richards may have slightly richer parents on average than Jacks, or more likely to come from one place or another. Richer people and people from different places look subtly different in most contexts. The effect wouldn’t be huge, but we meet and attach so much significance to names it would likely unconsciously effect our guesses.
@@merrymachiavelli2041 your a legend
@@665hp yes exactly
1:18 Actually the probability that you get all three by chance is 1 in 6, not 1 in 3.
The possibilities are {ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, CBA}, only one of which is correct.
But the results are over 1/3, psychologically speaking... (Yes, true, well that says something /(;^;)\ )
John, I concluded the same and left a comment along those lines prior to seeing yours. And the other responder to your comment understands statistics and fractions even less than the author of the script.
@@daveriley6310 What did you just say? And anyways, obviously it would be a 1 in 6 chance, mathematically speaking. But I was saying that it would be a 1 in 3 chance, taking account of the person's thinking. We are used to the names being arranged like that. (The effect only breaks when you actually know 1 of the 3 people)
Yes, if it was a random pick that would be correct, but like he explained throughout the video, people look like there names a lot of the time, it has a psychological effect, that is why the chance is so high.
The chances of acab is always 100% though
The dislikes come from the Twiddletoes.
CheesecakeLasagna ****cough cough****
Twiddletoes Whatshisface lmao
made my day.
Our bois twiddletoes
@@twiddletoeswhatshisface866 r/beetlejuicing
I am always impressed by your transition to skillshare at the end :p
I'ts always so funny when you realize that it's that part around 3-5 seconds before the skillshare name appears :D
gifting a website to someones theoretically successful fetus is probably the funniest shill ive seen on youtube. gotta respect the hustle
Was thinking the same thing myself.
That's a skill to share.
It's amazing, I clapped my hand and yelled "OW!" right in the morning hours. I hope I didn't wake anyone.
Newborn baby gets skillshare, learns quantum chromodynamics
Skillshare is the new Squarespace
Don't forget about Audible or Brilliant!
Anyone remember the scourge of Blue Apron?
Do..dollar shave club?
Hey there sonny, have you heard of *C R U N C H Y R O L L?*
In germany the most hated name is Kevin. The archetype fot this name is that their dumb, aggresive and easily addicted to drugs. Names can be curses
;(
Ha, Kevin has a similar stereotype here in Mexico, the stereotype is that he's a criminal, but the most laughed at name here is Brian, if Kevin is seen as a criminal, the Brian is the gang leader or some thing like that, if your name is Brian or Kevin here in Mexico, you will be seen as a criminal and if you're not one, you'll be made fun of for having that name.
Every Kevin I know plays tennis
The popularity of the name Kevin exploded due to the movie Home Alone from 1990. So it's all Macaulay Culkins fault for being too charming.
For women’s it’s probably Chantal
"Hi I'm Ryan"
"Brian?"
"... Sure"
"hi i'm joanna"
"joanne?"
"... i'm gonna kill myself"
Small mistake, nothing to be Crian about
Is it too much to handrian
@@j_0anna Joanna hang out sometime?
this is so true.
Nope, I named them Richard, Jack, and Bob.
CheesecakeLasagna same
Ssme
same
Same
Me too!
0:54
I thought for some reason that the first guy was named Richard, and the last was named Bob.
Same. It must be because we think Bob = balding guy.
Bob the builder
Sealand
I got so confused because you replied to a comment I left a year ago, and I had no clue what I had been talking about, nevermind what you were talking about. I love old comments. They’re little snapshots in time.
@@thepip3599 Wait, so _where_ did you bury the guy's body?
(Hopefully you wonder what you commented when you get this notification!)
Smae
Whatever you do DON'T NAME YOUR CHILD KAREN!!!
Mic drop you won!
Why? She'll be very popular, since redditors and twitter users will never stop talking about her
It's actually significantly dropped in rating of common names over the last couple of years 😆
Just don’t have kids that’s easier and causes less suffering
Or karen,chad,ashley..
When your name is unique so this video unrelatable
to an extent at least, you are the person with the weird name
Same my name is pretty unique too
I feel you bro
Damn "Supreme brick" that is a unique name.
*especially when it gets mispronounced so much you've just given up*
My name having an accent mark (Julián) has decided people will try to say my name in Spanish incorrectly my whole life.
FutureNow Welcome to the club.
I feel bad for people names "jorge or jesus" because white people would be saying george or the usual way jesus is pronounced
FutureNow you're right!!! When I was reading your name I automatically pronounced it in a Spanish accent, and then I read the next bit and I was like "WTF!!!".
my name is Ole and every american dude thinks i am some kind of country band
My name is pronounced in Spanish. But most people who aren’t native speakers pronounce it incorrectly in Spanish is what I was saying.
I was 'this close' to naming my first born Kerzlonda Twiddletoes-- after his father of course, but we went with our 2nd choice. We didn't want him to miss out on suvienier name liscence plate keychains.
I hope your son Bort is doing well!
My name is Wolfgang and I just happen to play the piano...
omegadan a friend of mine is called Viola and plays the violin. Says her mother and grandmother both have the name Viola and also play the violin. Spooky.
I guess Taylorgang would master the art of hip-hop and rap
omegadan You're lucky, Wolfgang is an awesome name.
Now I really want to see a bunch of wolves in greaser outfits smoking behind a diner.
gabor umm.....tf
I know a friend called Saxo, and he happens to play saxophone
Since my name is Diaz, every Spanish person has to say "Goodmorning morning"(demonic laugh is made)
*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*
Eqhm, *I digress*
Buenos días, Diaz.
I don't get it
George Meadway It makes a Spanish pun. Buenos dias, Diaz.
actually its "Good morning, days"
or you could say "Buen día, Díaz" which is "Good day, days"
HAI: "Mumbo Jumbo Pseudo Science Nonsense"
Mumbo Jumbo on his walking town: *am I a joke to you?*
I was fucking thinking this I s2g
Is this a hermit craft reference.
@@xavierwagner3238 no
The entire video I was just thinking of 'A boy named Sue'
johnny cash.
I shall name my first child Kerzlonda
And your second child shall be Twiddletoes.
Damn, so we have been the ones creating Karens this whole time. Damn us.
Name your child Ajit to be the most hated person in the United States
EpicClone5082 If I owned a progressive ISP company I would have my servers scan every packet and change Ajit to Traitor whenever it occurred, just to make the point that his new rules MAKE THAT LEGAL.
Try adolf instead
Resat Yildirim i was about to say that.
Maybe also kim
"Ajit"? More like a "a shit"!
So I'm Rafael. Would that mean I would have to become a Ninja Turtle, a famous artist, or a tennis player like my forefathers before me?
Or? Why the or? Why not and?
Don't sell yourself short. You can do them all!!
You can also run for US president as a senator from Texas who’s mistaken for the zodiac killer
We might not agree on some things, but let's agree that was legit the smoothest transition ever.
I feel like the higher than expected number of 'Georgias' in Georgia, and to a lesser extent the other cities discussed, is more likely because of parents naming their children after the state rather than Georgias moving there (although it's probably still a minor factor).
Harry Nevard Sweet Georgia Brown!
Mycel My Post had NOTHING to do with heroin. I was citing an ACTUAL TV AD for a certain make and model of automobile. I hate having to explain punch lines, but for you: the older child learned that she was named after the CITY in which her parents (a “normal” married couple, as far as we know) conceived her. But her baby SISTER was named for the kind of CAR in which ... they may have been re-enacting their high school memories.
NOW do you get it?
Oh, I just noticed you were responding to my EARLIER post. The song “Sweet Georgia Brown” is normally assumed to refer to a woman the singer admired. If there was any drug reference, it was so well hidden that, after the Harlem Globetrotters used it as background music for their basketball shows, it has become identified in mainstream media with basketball.
In the 1970s, Mel Brooks and his wife Anne Bancroft produced, directed, and starred in a remake of Jack Benny’s wartime dark humor movie “To Be or Not to Be,” about a Vaudeville theater in Warsaw whose owners run a scam on the Nazi occupiers, including Benny’s/Brooks’ character impersonating Hitler, to get a Free Polish pilot, their theater staff (Jews, Poles, and at least one gay man), and themselves to freedom.
The Brooks version of the movie begins with the couple on stage, singing and dancing, and the song is Sweet Georgia Brown, IN POLISH!
Nothing in there about drugs!
They are probably both major factors
What's probably still a minor factor? Because people will move to cities with their own name, or because parents naming their children are more likely to name them after the place that they are in?
People moving to cities with their own name would still be a minor factor. It just think that parents naming their children after the place they live is a greater factor :)
Dam this is accurate
I actually look like my name
Clorox Bleach no shit...
Bleach doesn't remove shit, a toilet brush does that.
Everywhere’s I go you have a comment
No kidding XD
me to
What if I've had multiple names due to nicknames and using middle and first name and I don't confine to the mere human concept of names?
Then you identify as a seldom seen and often misunderstood cat. And you work in tech.
Sounds like you have a hard time hearing so they just yell anything at you, and when something works they stick to it
I actually have multiple nicknames and different groups of people in my life call me a different name. My classmates and new people I meet call me by mi middle name; my close friends call me by a nickname from my middle name; my parents call me by my first name (actually they're the only ones who do that), and my mother's side of the family just calls me by my childhood nickname. It seems and sounds like a mess, but I guess at the end of the day if you truly know who you are then you don't care that much the way people call you.
So this confirms that every person named Ajit will grow up to be a horrible government official?
Thanks for correcting my mistake lol
*the killer of all good things in life
"I've become a
Ajit destroyer of world." said the scientist who built the next big WMD.
Anon ymous I like you, we are the "17%" Kappa
no everyone named ajit will be my dad who went to bug cigarettes and never came back
Wouldn't the conclusion also require that kids do not have similar paths as their parents? As in a professors child is more likely to go down the same path as the parent, while the parent is less likely to call the child "chad", because it's a name not really associated with professors.
I also think with the places with your name thing, it's can also be parents naming their kids Louis because they live in St. Louis, also making it disproportionate.
Good point, but the video talks about how your name influences you regardless of what life you are born into.
If your parents are professors but they, for some reason, give you the name "Adolf Hitler" then you are quite likely to have a difficult time regardless of your social status at birth.
At the same time, if you are born to a poor family but your name is William. You are more likely (than most other names) to outgrow your poor status.
And finally, not all names are equal on a global scale. If your name is Herschel and you are born in Syria then you are quite likely to be or have been beheaded.
U lucky Basterd...
Did your parents really name you Benjamin Benjamin?
there’s literally a peter and deborah on dragons den lol
That's what I was thinking haha
That's what I was thinking lol!!
Could some of this not be attributed to the fact that certain names are more popular in certain socio-economic groups and subcultures, and children born into those groups and cultures are more likely to act in accordance with their associated parental culture and class?
Daniel Bolstad well, in the sense that ghetto names from the hood aren't going to impress anybody in proper society, yes.
You say that like it somehow invalidates the concept. Parents who want their children to rise above their socioeconomic class will often give them names that they feel will help them do so. And it often works. Most likely self-fulfilling prophecy is the most salient explanation for the phenomenon, but culture does play into it too.
Absolutely.
I got Jack right, but not Richard and Bob.
TheVideoGamingChannel Same. I reckon we thought the same thing, Jacks are more western, or wild. Bobs are the commoners. Like average Joe or average Bob. Richards are more.... rich. That guy was wearing a suit.
Yeah, I mixed those two up as well, seemingly for the same reason. Though I hesitated a bit afterward, and thought I might have.
Maybe I'd have thought differently if I'd been asked who was "Robert" and who was "Rick" or "Dick".
TheVideoGamingChannel i got them all right,jack wasn't that clear but richard and bob looked sooo richard and bob if that makes sense lol
TheVideoGamingChannel yea i thought bob looked more bobbish but i said richard because richard’s are generally more successful
Same.
So we work in comoanies that have the same initials as our names?
Guess i gotta pick between Head & Shoulders and Hyundai
Who got all three names wrong 😂
Me
Bipper Squipper meeeeeeee xD
I did. I assigned names based on etymology.
me
Bipper Squipper of was from left to right Richard Bob Jack
What about parents choosing names that reflect themselves, when the parents then pass their traits down to their children, through the bringing up of the children?
I always had my own little theory about this sort of thing and it's so great to know that there is actually research behind this.
This looks like a massive correlation vs causation misjudgement. Don't you think that people with rich sounding names are more likely to succeed because they come from a rich family, rather than because their names urge them to?
For example, people with names affiliated to poor families are much less likely to pass exams than the ones with fancy names, the statistics are very clear. According to this video, it would seem to be because their name pressured them to study less...
exactly! it goes the other way around, I was looking for this comment
This video is a bit misleading
You are almost certainly correct. People have such a poor understanding of statistics. Experiments prove causation, not observations.
Also, is it not likely that parents in Georgia would be likely to name their baby girl after their home state that they know and love?
Occupy Mars Didn't they kind of say that by describing it as a self fulfilling prophecy?
What about certain names being more popular in certain social climates? So a name that is more seen with professors could be more popular with parents that come from families that have more academics. For me, that sounds more or at least just as plausible as people living up to their names.
Joris Exactly what I was thinking. I have no idea what my name is supposed to live up to, and I'm sure that's the case for many other people. That makes it hard for the self-fulfilling prophesy theory to actually work out.
I was named after my grandparents house, so I guess I'll be living with my grandma in the future?
I'm hit by a smooth transition once again...
Are you okay, Annie?
Were you struck too?
I'll name my kid Lamborghini.
I traveled through time just to post this comment
You're kid will own a Lamborghini then
Would a Lamborghini be cheaper in the future?
Dakota M ok
Lol
This is interesting because my friends had a game where we'd look up our names on urban dictionary and see if they matched us and 90% of the time they did.
I feel like this video doesn't go into nearly enough depth, and does sound surprisingly like pseudoscience to me. Are people named Chad less likely to become professors because they're living up to societal expectations based on their name, or is it because the name Chad is more common in communities where people are less likely to because of (for example) socioeconomic reasons? Are people named Georgia REALLY more likely to move to Georgia, or are their parents just naming them after the state they were born in?
George Meadway you’re getting it wrong, the name of the channel is also a self-fulfilling prophecy, turning out that is not as interesting as it should be.
The boring answer is that it's probably a little bit of both. I also thought this video was a little short.
It makes sense. If you name your kid "Dinkledwarf McBumnugget" that kid will probably end up being a serial killer because every moment spent in school will be absolute torture that will breed a lifetime of resentment toward both authority (parents) and others.
An extreme example surely, but it proves a point. Names have power over us because they literally identify and define us. We see other people with our names and society puts a subtle amount of pressure on us to live up to our namesake in those people.
We also get treated differently because of our names. If the same woman sends in job applications with the names "Jennifer" and "Shaniqua" with everything else being the same, "Jennifer" will most likely get more consideration because "Shaniqua" has some negative connotations associated with it. It's like meeting someone named "Hitler". You know that kid is troubled.
This. Your name is chosen by your parents, so it's generally based on their social, geographical and cultural environment. For a quick example, someone named 'Charles' could be more likely to come from a more upper/middle class background than a 'Steven' and therefore have different opportunities.
Not that either name represents any particular class, but the chances are the choice was made based on the parents' preferences. Therefore heavily influenced by the family background, which is totally out of the person's control, and nothing to do with societal expectations.
In the end, it's an almost impossible theory to prove due to the amount of variables.
With the "Jennifer" and "Shaqifar" thing, it is not the names that have the power but the social circumstance that they imply.
Honestly, it is hard to be convinced by this argument except in extreme cases like "Hitler". Even in those cases, you'd think the fact that their parents are insane would have something to do with how terrible their lives are.
Between "Bob" and "Jack", it is terribly hard to attribute the differences to the name rather than the name to the social group of the parents.
That ad transition was so smooth I was half way through my 4th skill share course before I realised I wasn't on RUclips anymore
This is literally the most interesting entertaining and constructive RUclips video. Thank you for it’s creation
My name is kerzlonda as well
But they call me George
George Spanos no offense but what kind of name is kerzlonda?
I dated a black girl named Kerzlonda.
@@riyazuo _excuse me?_
That smoothness of changing topic and telling about your sponsor :P
It is amazing how names can make a difference to a person. A name can define the identity of a person or at times, the person can make the name extra special.
Freakonomics anyone? Also, I do take some issue with your conclusions. It is possible that people of a certain socioeconomic class choose names specific to their socioeconomic class. With redistribution of people amongst socioeconomic classes not being 100%, you would have people with high socioeconomic status having certain names due to them having been born to high socioeconomic status and not their name giving them higher socioeconomic status.
Daniel freakonomics oh yes
I was looking for this comment 😂
I know a professor named Chad...
And I know a bunch of professors who look like hobos. Maybe we should not judge because of names or looks.
His full name is probably Chadwick
Arkt1k is it Northwestern Professor Chad Mirkin? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Mirkin
No you don't.
I had one too! In calculus. He was finishing up his PhD when I had him
I thought Richard would be the guy in the suit
These transitions are so smooth
Avinash Khetri your face is smooth
Akash Shanmugam wtf
that's the joke
Akash Shanmugam xD
Well I think this one was pretty forced
Wow, I actually get the names right.
Bob definitely have a "Bob" face
Same I got all three and I just thought jack and bob really fit them and left Richard from the hair
Got them all correct too. I thought Bob sounded like some car salesman smile, Richard was a more aristocratic heritage, and Jack more free spirit artist/adventurer. Sometimes I feel a dissonance if the name and face doesn't match.
I got Bob right. The other two, I didn't even guess.
Same shape as Bobby hill.
The video is nonsense, as should be clear from the spouting random words unashamedly at the beginning?! (not saying the uncited paper: "We Look Like Our Names: The Manifestation of Name Stereotypes in Facial Appearance" is but at the very least read it yourselves rather than listen to what someone else tells you it says...) Anyway Bob's name isn't "Bob" it's actually "Robert" (ie. he chooses to be called "Bob") and satistically people that got it right are more likely to comment/agree with you here, in a conversation that is sounding alot like the pseudo-scientific blood type superstition.
I thought Richard was the businessman. Bob was the cowboy. And jack was the guy on the very right
I guess my name's stereotype is to be mispronounced by every person in a teaching position ever.
KKTrain Springer train?
Oof. My name must be being mispelled by every person in a teaching position ever
My god has that happened to you? It happens to me.
KKTrain Springer yesssss
I had a teacher for 5 years miss pronounce and misspell my name even tho I corrected her every day
I hate outie belly buttons
I think that in pregnancy a lot of women's belly buttons turn into outies, they're not always like that at first.
an "outie" could be that the initial surgery to make the naval an "innie" failed. I.e. a little hernia before the sutures have healed.To fix it later, unless the person is experiencing medical problems, insurance companies would likely consider it cosmetic surgery. And yes, pregnancy is also a huge cause of ".outies". Albeit temporary most often. Probably just as well that someone that has an "outie" is not on your radar. You seem kind of shallow.
@@diana3599 some people can't stand the sight of blood, some people can't stand looking at spiders, some people can't stand outies, some people can't stand r/slash Karens
Whether a belly button is innie or outie during pregnancy depends on if the baby is laying with its back to the front of the belly (forcing the navel out because the baby's spine is hard), or if the baby is laying differently (allowing the navel to sink in)
The most common resting position for a navel during pregnancy is outie because the baby's head, spine, and sometimes even feet force it out, and in late trimesters it can be constantly like that. It'll usually go back in after the baby is born.
Well, my feelings are hurt.
my name is Patrick, so my life is destined to be Spongebob's best friend
And like Squidward yet he hates u
@@familyfun5301 yeah, my life is also destined to be hated by Squidward
I think it is more than just a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think that the distribution of names in not equal among all social-economic classes.
granbulljan It’s more directly a cultural bias than a classist one, but it does cut into class culture. Homeless folk have a slightly different culture than the lower middle class, then the upper middle, and the top tier with more offshoots there. A name is partially dependent on where you start life. It can be a prophecy or future determined by where you begin.
*Hears URSS anthem in the distance*
I agree with you, but because it does play a roll I wanted to mention it
Please note that the probability for guessing all three names correctly is NOT 1/3 but instead 1/6. When the first name is guessed right, the remaining chance is 1/2 so the total chance is: 1/2 * 1/3 --> 1/6
I think he was referring to the chance of guessing them as individuals, based on the 3 available choices, instead of nailing that guess 3 times in a row. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt here.
Also known as factorials,
1/3!
NiteZ Comments 1/(3!)
@@Zharque No need for the parentheses. Factorial has a higher order of precedence than division. mathworld.wolfram.com/Precedence.html
@@ganonk79 I didn't know that and good to know, although I do know that 1/2! specifically is not equal to 1/(2!) which was what I was kinda basing on.
2:18 thanks, now I have to wash vomit off of my computer.
LOL
OK... I need to know... Am I only one, who did not match ANY name to correct person? :D
If you don't live in the US or English isn't your first language, the names might have different associations attached to them.
Kensei Maeda well I'm neither too but I got all of them right 😅
Kensei Maeda
I got them all wrong as well. I’m from the U.S with English as my primary language so... does that make me a statistical outlier?
I didn't even tried to match their names
Same
Also one other way names affect my daily life:
Being the first in my class' name list
You don't know how many times I've been "late" just because my name is first on the list.
My last name is generally last on the list
Well my first name and last name all starts with Z so everytime we're getting stuff I was always the last
@PowderSnom There was a guy in my class for 6 years whose last name was Aalto so I kinda witnessed that struggle too.
-(I was the first on the list after I changed schools)-
I think Bob the Builder made me see Bob as a wacky name so I got all the matching wrong
i matched all the names wrong... :(
Andreas Casadei yup me too!
I matched the guy in the suit to richard.
Radiant Penguin same! Mine was Richard, Jack then Bob.
CheesecakeLasagna SAME😱
Same
Now I'm going to change my name to Kerzlonda so I can comment a big essay on why I'm set out to be amazing because my name is Kerzlonda. Where my Kerzlondas at?
in their hondas? (Kerzlondas in da hondas!)
My Marble World There at yo mamas house ooooooo
Ada PlayzRblx ok I'll go say hi to my fellow kerzlondas!
I'm right here.
there's also a study that confirmed easier to pronounce names are less likely to be bullied in school
Is it an American thing for saying Louis like lewis because I don't get it as someone one who is called Louis but is pronounced louee.
Louis Gillet that's the French pronunciation but we don't speak French so people are generally named Lewis (although some are Louis like French). Older places have the older pronunciation. It really depends on the person, because they could be named either way.
Chris Hall Not true... It's in England too.
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Yes, actually. Americans named any variation of Lewis tend to pronounce them all the same. Except Luis. That's always pronounced like it is in Spanish.
I have actually seen both
Wow i matched the names correctly even tho i'm from Eastern Europe and these names have 0 usage.
ur mum has no usage xdddd
am just kidding don't be offended
@@SomeRandomDudee i used your mum
The names could have been randomly jumbled combinations of hieroglyphics and 1 in 6 people would correctly match them. That is contrary to the 1 in 3 that this extremely poor presentation posed.
Interesting that the OG Peter and Deborah were both leaders even among other leaders
I would ask how your videos are so good, but you'd just plug skill share so
The ancient Romans believed that names were the equivelent of destiny and would name there children after a certain job they wanted there children to fufill in life, such as naming them teacher or soldier, now we know it to be true.
Garrett Allen while i don't think it's neccesarily completely true,but in their times i think it's very obvious why that would be completely true almost all the time,if we think about it,right now the reason there's a small correlation is because there's a small vague connection between certain names like peter and concepts like success
But if you were named "teacher" like in the times of the romans,you'd grow up your entire life being called teacher,knowing that you should be a teacher and readying up to be so
with the first thing, I was completely off, going left to right, I thought it was Richared, Bob, and then Jack
"Eh they all look pretty similar but I guess I'll try to match them."
*Results: Correct*
"WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!?"
Holy shit I actually got Bob, Richard and Jack right... Damn...
Some of us had to legally change our name because our parents gave us the name Karen.
I actually got Bob and Richard switched. Also, I'm doubtful. It could simply be that different people are more likely to name their children different things, and we attach the bias of those origins to the people who are produced from them.
For example, more intelligent people might be disproportionately likely to give their children certain names. Their child is on average going to be more intelligent than typical, so they may tend to behave differently and have different preferences based on that and cultural narratives of how the intelligent act and what they like.
Similarly, are the people in Georgia or St. Louis named those things there by choice, or were they born there? Seems to me being born there would make you abnormally likely to be named that thing.
seigeengine that makes a lot more sense than what he said in the video.
Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong. Names probably do influence you somewhat, but you shouldn't go too far in that direction without considering alternative explanations.
I saw the cheeky smile of the mayor of Florida and I thought for sure, that man's a Dick (Richard)
I never thought I'd see the day when my random small hometown would be in a Half as Interesting video. Shutouts to anyone else from Saint Mary's!
Your odds of matching all 3 names is not 1/3. Your odds are 1/6.
Easy way is to list the sample space. We'll simplify by naming them A, B, and C and they have the professions of 1, 2, and 3 respectively.
A1B2C3, A1C2B3, A2B1C3, A2B3C1, A3B1C2, A3B2C1.
As we can see, only the first of the 6 options is correct.
Mathematically this can be shown as 1/3 * 1/2 * 1/1 = 1/6.
Basically the odds of matching the first name is 1/3 (A1-A2-A3). This leaves you with two possibilities B2C3 and B3C2, 1/2 of which are correct. If you choose B2 then you are guaranteed to choose C3 hence the 1/1.
Now if they could work any profession even if someone else already was, then our sample space would be dramatically larger and not worth listing here.
Mathematically, it could be solved as 1/3 * 1/3 * 1/3 = 1/27. Each name having a 1/3 chance of randomly being paired correctly.
That smooth transition towards the sponsor
Is there a place named Montel or Renkiewicz.
Montélimar in France is often shortened as Montel, so go get there and eat loads of nougat. You're welcome
Montel means fat (in a polite way) in Malay language
Montreal?
There is a car repair shop called Renkiewicz near Grudziądz in Poland.
I've always wondered why the Kyles that I've met are so... Kyle
My name is slim shady
But i'm the real shady!
I guess that means one of you two need to fulfill your names requirements and stand up.
The Chad Kerzlonda vs The Virgin Twiddletoes
I like this comment.
0:33 hit me at an emotional level
Or, your parents have a certain bias towards specific names and the child is heavily influenced by them?
Name your girl barackeisha so everyone knows that she is future us president material
Spital Helles Will do!
Or Donaldella... maybe not actually...
I remember hearing that boys with names typically considered more feminine are more likely to become trouble makers and bullies and there was a bit at my school called Stacey who was like the biggest trouble maker in my school.
I saw that sponsor coming from a mile away lol