What's in a name...?

[swordsman]

Does your name define you?

 

Psychologists have famously found that people subconsciously gravitate towards places and jobs that resemble their names: more "Kens" live in Kentucky and more "Lauras" become lawyers, for example, than what would be predicted by chance alone. But this secret love we harbor for our names can hurt us, according to a new study published in the journal Psychological Science. If your name is associated with something bad, you might gravitate towards the bad, too.

 

Researchers at UC-San Diego and Yale University first looked at how baseball players' names affect their performance. The letter "K" is used to record a strikeout, so the psychologists wondered: did batters named Keith and Karl tend to strike out more often than those named John or William, since batting zero might seem, to them, a little less awful?

 

The psychologists analyzed 93 years of Major League Baseball performance and found that the answer, surprisingly, is yes—batters whose names began with "K" struck out more often than other batters. "Even Karl ‘Koley’ Kolseth would find a strikeout aversive, but he might find it a little less aversive than players who do not share his initials, and therefore he might avoid striking out less enthusiastically,” wrote the authors.

 

Well what do you know!? God bless science and statistics.

[jersey cubs fan]

If this somehow convinces Hendry not to sign Kaz, I will thank them for their work.

[minnesotacubsfan]

If this somehow convinces Hendry not to sign Kaz, I will thank them for their work.

 

 

jimbo likes him some K very much, thank you.

[Yestheydo]

Hmmmm....

[Little Slide Rooter]

Fuk U Dome-Watch out any teams with indoor ball parks.

[Bote McBoteface]

This explains Corey Patterson.

 

 

edit: hmm...apparently when you spell Corey with a K it automatically changes it for you>_<

[NCCubFan]

edit: hmm...apparently when you spell Corey with a K it automatically changes it for you>_<

That was done a few years ago when some people intentionally misspelled his first name to be demeaning.

[inari]

I have a friend who spells their name Corey. Like, with a K. This filter would not amuse them.

[javy knows my name]

edit: hmm...apparently when you spell Corey with a K it automatically changes it for you>_<

That was done a few years ago when some people intentionally misspelled his first name to be demeaning.

:shock:

I'm sorry, but that is so heavy-handed it's ridiculous

[sethuel1]

edit: hmm...apparently when you spell Corey with a K it automatically changes it for you>_<

That was done a few years ago when some people intentionally misspelled his first name to be demeaning.

:shock:

I'm sorry, but that is so heavy-handed it's ridiculous

Also you can't say the word [expletive]. But you can say bazongas. That's cool

[Garage Party]

The K-orey and Rusch filters are still in place? Hah! North Side Baseball, where it's always 2004!