microrobert
11-12-2012, 03:57 PM
You think your first name is rarer than other people do (http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.fr/2012/11/your-first-name-is-not-as-unusual-as.html)
You think you're so special, you probably think this post is about you. And maybe it is, if you too succumb to what US researcher John Kulig calls the "name uniqueness effect" - believing that your first name is more unusual than other people do.
Kulig (http://jupiter.plymouth.edu/~kulig/) asked 153 female students and 94 male students to rate how common their first name was on a scale from 0 to 100. The scale featured nine "anchor" names placed at the appropriate places as a guide, based on actual name frequencies obtained from the university's registrar.
For comparison, a control group of the same number of men and women each provided an estimate of the popularity of one of the names from the first group (women rated a female name, and men rated one of the male names).
BPS Research Digest: You think your first name is rarer than other people do (http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.fr/2012/11/your-first-name-is-not-as-unusual-as.html)
You think you're so special, you probably think this post is about you. And maybe it is, if you too succumb to what US researcher John Kulig calls the "name uniqueness effect" - believing that your first name is more unusual than other people do.
Kulig (http://jupiter.plymouth.edu/~kulig/) asked 153 female students and 94 male students to rate how common their first name was on a scale from 0 to 100. The scale featured nine "anchor" names placed at the appropriate places as a guide, based on actual name frequencies obtained from the university's registrar.
For comparison, a control group of the same number of men and women each provided an estimate of the popularity of one of the names from the first group (women rated a female name, and men rated one of the male names).
BPS Research Digest: You think your first name is rarer than other people do (http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.fr/2012/11/your-first-name-is-not-as-unusual-as.html)