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fubarobfusco comments on Open Thread, October 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: David_Gerard 01 October 2012 05:54AM

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Comment author: Unnamed 01 October 2012 11:56:19PM 7 points [-]

Economics also has the tradition of ordering authors alphabetically. And economists with earlier-letter surnames end up having more successful careers, quite possibly as a result of that tradition.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 02 October 2012 07:40:29AM 2 points [-]

And yet the effect isn't strong enough for economists named Zweibel to change their names to Aardman?