Yvain comments on What's In A Name? - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Yvain 29 June 2009 12:54PM

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Comment author: Yvain 30 June 2009 10:25:02AM 2 points [-]

If you haven't already, read the part of the paper where they talk about hardware and roofing stores. They ran some clever analyses to see whether the effect was caused by a love of alliteration (for example someone named Herman decides to go into hardware so he can call his store Herman's Hardware) and the results suggested this wasn't the explanation.