this video was made possible by skill share learn what you want to learn with skill share for free for two months at the link in the description Cenozoic try partly plural centrum antidote on tell Jake floccinaucinihilipilification you see what I'm doing here is using a bunch of long fancy words to make you think that this video isn't some mumbo-jumbo pseudoscience nonsense because it's not there are plenty of very legitimate studies linking your name to your life and that makes sense after all your name is as attached to you as your arm your leg your credit score the regret that you didn't buy Bitcoin six months ago because it was too complicated your name is part of you and you reflect your name for example here are three people one is named Richard one is named Bob and one is named Jack who do you think is named what now these are all American white men around the same age so there are no ethnic or generational biases that you could use to match names to people but statistically there is an above average chance that you matched Bob - Bob Buckhorn mayor of Tampa Florida Richard - Richard Ford novelist and short story writer and Jack - Jack Hanna zoologist and conservationist some of you may have by chance recognized one of these people but the majority of you who didn't on averaged match the right name to the right person more than the 33. 3% of the time that would be random the Hebrew University of Jerusalem conducted the study that identified this ability to guess names and that names fit their owner which helps explain at least a little bit well you don't know many professors named Chad they conducted a series of tests where they had participants guessed the real name of people in photos and in all cases the guesses were far more accurate than random chance in their second test for example participants were shown four different names for each picture meaning that if it were random participants would guess correctly 25% of the time but for some names such as Tom guesses were correct 52% of the time with other names such as Yeshua accuracy was as low as 9 percent well below random so they continued their study by affirming that the accuracy didn't just come from some names being more popular than others but on average names were guessed correctly 30% of the time 5 percent above random it's indisputable that people do look like their names but here's the problem with this conclusion with very little exception names are chosen before or at birth at which point parents have pretty much no idea what their child will look or act like so that means something else must be true names are a self-fulfilling prophecy we act look and make decisions based off our name for example about 0. 42 percent of the population of the u.
s. is named Lewis which means that there should be one thousand three hundred and sixteen people in st. Louis Missouri named Lewis but there are not there are 1959 this is the same elsewhere there are two thousand two hundred and two people named Georgia in Georgia while based off the average there should be one thousand one hundred and three there should be two hundred and sixty-two people named Mary in st.
Mary's Ohio but there are three hundred and ninety the difference is an enormous but it is statistically significant what researchers have concluded is that people notice things and places more when they're similar to their names so someone named Lewis for example would just notice Saint Louis more so when it comes time to move st.
