{"id":9104,"date":"2013-06-26T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9104"},"modified":"2013-06-25T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T20:49:08","slug":"how-your-name-is-linked-to-wealth-adverts-intellect-and-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-your-name-is-linked-to-wealth-adverts-intellect-and-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"How Your Name Is Linked To Wealth, Adverts, Intellect And Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-9105\" alt=\"signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/signature.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"565\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The rightly famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2013\/04\/08\/how-much-does-your-name-matter-full-transcript\/\">Freakonomics<\/a> writers had a recent podcast discussing the economic impact that your name has on your life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Levitt and Dubner looked at children born into similar situations: age of mother, healthcare plan, parents&#8217; marriage status etc&#8230;but who differed by having a distinctly black or traditional white sounding name. The result; there was no correlation. Name has no effect on lifetime economic well-being.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>This contrasts with a study found that sending out a resume with a white sounding name has a 50% higher chance of getting a call-back than sending an identical resume with a black sounding name.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps this seeming contradiction can be explained by most people not finding jobs through sending resumes; it&#8217;s all about networks. It may be having a black sounding name helps with finding a job in a black community.<\/li>\n<li>Adverts on Google have an unpleasant trend. Black names typed into a Google search are 25% more likely to come up with the advertisment &#8220;(name) arrested&#8221; than white names<\/li>\n<li>But, Google says the way the algorithm works is that ads are weighted in favour of what gets clicked. So what the data actually shows is that &#8220;(black name) arrested&#8221; is 25% more likely to be clicked than &#8220;(white name) arrested&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>When it comes to parents choosing names, there are a couple of interesting trends. One is that almost every name that becomes popular started out as a high-class or high education name. After a couple of decades these names work their way down the income strata, becoming prevalent in lower income families and much less common in high-income families.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2013\/04\/08\/how-much-does-your-name-matter-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0for the podcast or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2013\/04\/08\/how-much-does-your-name-matter-full-transcript\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0for the transcript. Read or listen on to hear the perspective of fifteen year old\u00a0<em>E Harper Nora Jeremijenko-Conley,\u00a0<\/em>how parents signal intellect through their children&#8217;s names and how naming trends vary between liberal and conservative households.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2013\/04\/08\/how-much-does-your-name-matter-full-transcript\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rightly famous Freakonomics writers had a recent podcast discussing the economic impact that your name has on your life: Levitt and Dubner looked at children born into similar situations: age of mother, healthcare plan, parents&#8217; marriage status etc&#8230;but who differed by having a distinctly black or traditional white sounding name. The result; there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/signature.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9108,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions\/9108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}