NancyLebovitz comments on How is your mind different from everyone else's? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 December 2011 04:38:37PM 3 points [-]

This may be more common than you think.

I know two women who are close friends and whose first names begin with the same uncommon letter. One is white, the other is black. One was plump, the other was slender (they've converged to some extent since, but I'm talking about a while ago). One has a loud voice, and the other a soft voice.

People would confuse them with each other.