More Amazon Shenanigans?
…really interesting: I once did an experiment on Amazon by registering a dozen different accounts under different names and email addresses. Then I used each name to click on those…
…really interesting: I once did an experiment on Amazon by registering a dozen different accounts under different names and email addresses. Then I used each name to click on those…
…for blurbs isn’t really consumers at all — it’s bookstore and particularly chain bookstore buyers. Those folks, I am told, want to see endorsements from recognizable (i.e., successful-selling) names, particularly…
…my thought. – Josh Yes, the Steelers and Packers are the only two NFL teams that derive their names from the historical working culture of their towns. In a league…
…to have their names recognized in perpetuity with an eponymous endowed chair at their university? Is there anything they can do? Yes. There are two things. First, a much larger…
…in the price per gram. And these names, while colorful, are pretty standardized: newspapers like the LA Weekly run pages of ads that list prices for “White Widow,” “Skywalker OG,”…
…say by how much. The campaign also has lists of volunteers, including the names of neighborhood team leaders who were the most active supporters. A donor database has names of…
…divisions of English soccer since 1960 (as noted, the names of these divisions has changed over time). What follows are all the teams who have played at least one season…
…includes eight names. Three of these players – Maxiell, McDyess, and Prince – were on the 2007-08 team. As noted, these players aged and so their production had to be…
…One advantage of having outsiders analyze the data is that it might be easier to name names. The Bureau’s decision to release the names of the companies that consumers complained…
…really true that names matter for getting a resume callback, but don’t matter for long-term life outcomes. Then this probably implies that names matter a little for first impressions, but…
…the “fame-seeking daughter of Geneco’s owner,” played by Paul Sorvino. We’ve devoted plenty of time to discussing the effects of individual’s names, but what about the names of companies? De…
…other named plane in circulation, the Robert F. Six, which honors the company’s founder. (For those of you who care about first names: according to the Baby Name Wizard, the…
…will not find any LemonJellos in Malaysia.” The blog post referred to new laws in Malaysia that banned a variety of non-standard names for children: Parents will not be able…
…fastest-rising baby names in 2012, according to the Social Security Administration’s annual list of popular baby names. … The boy’s mother, Jaleesa Martin, of Newport, said she will appeal. She…
The underlying point of everything we’ve ever written about baby names is that the name is essentially the parents’ signal to the world of what they think of their kid…
Real tax reform may or may not ever happen. In the meantime, how about making the current system work a bit better?
It’s impossible to say for sure, but the Lebanese do remarkably well. Why?
It used to feel like magic. Now it can feel like a set of cheap tricks. Is the problem with Google — or with us?…
Talithia Williams thinks you should rigorously track your body’s data. She and Steve Levitt trade birth stories and bemoan the state of STEM education….
It used to feel like magic. Now it can feel like a set of cheap tricks. Is the problem with Google — or with us? And is Google Search finally…
Stephen Dubner appears as a guest on Fail Better, a new podcast hosted by David Duchovny. The two of them trade stories about failure, and ponder the lessons that success…
…In Freakonomics, we wrote that names — at least people’s names — don’t affect life outcome. But it would have been fun to run a little experiment with the WSJ…
As reported by the BBC, Malaysia has banned “unsuitable” first names. An excerpt from the article: Parents will not be able to call their babies after animals, insects, fruit, vegetables…
Dubner recently posted about criminal names in England. The American parallel to that list is one maintained by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The Texas list has information about…
…she sent me; in order to protect the potentially innocent, I will obscure their last names: Eric Wayne XXXXXX — sex charges Nathan Wayne XXXXXX — kidnapping and beating, homicide…
…On my menu it was called something like “Coffee mocha milkshake” and on my wife’s menu it was “Chocolate Kona milkshake swirl.” The names were better than that, but one…
…includes a link to a public-records database that lists names and addresses of all members of a certain population. Now, try to imagine which of the following databases might provoke…
…common last names including “Campbell,” “Smith” and “Jones,” as well as “Greg Abbott,” the attorney general. The result? Hundreds of PDF’s for the common names and a handful for Abbott,…
…I love when people’s names are aptonyms — names that correlate with their professions. It seems to happen an awful lot with bird people. There’s John Flicker, president of the…
