A boy named Winner and his brother, Loser . . . The blackest names and the whitest names . . . The segregation of culture: why Seinfeld never made the top fifty among black viewers . . . If you have a really bad name, should you just change it? . . . High-end names and low-end names (and how one becomes the other) . . . Britney Spears: a symptom, not a cause . . . Is Aviva the next Madison? . . . What your parents were telling the world when they gave you your name. In Chapter 6 of the book "FREAKONOMICS" - the authors explore the topic of names and, specifically, whether a person's given name affects his or her outcome in life and why people give their babies certain names to begin with. The authors discuss, more particularly, how blacks and whites name their babies very differently and whether having a distinctively black-sounding name affects one's life outcome. Finally, a significant portion of Chapter 6 is devoted to merely listing and comparing the most popular names in certain years given to babies of blacks and whites, high income and low income people and high education and low education people.
Whats the craziest name you ever heard and the meaning behind it? Do you think its just more profiling? Your thoughts?
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