Names and Mom's level of Education

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Registered: 04-01-2003
Names and Mom's level of Education
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Tue, 05-10-2005 - 10:54am

Saw this on Amazon and thought it was interesting.

A couple of weeks ago someone had posted a link to Slate.com where they were talking about a book, "Freakonomics," that discusses baby names and children's eventual lots in life, examining the coreelation between the two. ANYWAY, I was looking at the book on Amazon.com and it had a link to the appendix of the book where the authors list some baby names and the mother's corresponding average highest attained level of education. Example: 12.0 would be high school graduate, 14.0 would be h.s. plus two years of college, and so on. Anyway, just thought some might find this an interesting look:
http://images.amazon.com/media/i3d/01/freaknames.pdf

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Registered: 06-14-2003
Tue, 05-10-2005 - 12:14pm
Huh, interesting. I didn't look at every name but I did notice the boys' name Jesus which only had an average grade of 8.71 ... it was the lowest grade I happened to notice. Only one of my boys' names was listed & the others are quite traditional (Jason, Christopher & Matthew).
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Registered: 07-07-2004
Tue, 05-10-2005 - 12:41pm

Interesting.

Michelle

  Graham (May 1999),

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Registered: 05-11-2005
Wed, 05-11-2005 - 6:49pm
Great link. The last test I took said I had the education of a high school graduate, plus three years of college. My last I.Q. test score was 131.