Men named Dennis more likely to become dentists

Been down this road a number of times in a few medicine-related groups and I’m sure there are thousands of examples, but my favorite of all time is, of course… http://www.urologyteam.com/dr-richard-chopp Yup, there are more vasectomies to be done by dick chopp.
(anatomically inaccurate as that may be…)

i’ve recently read another study which suggests, that you are more likely to be promoted with a surname like “King” than with one like “Farmer”

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Beschizza
I’m from Austria, and for me it sounds very much like Beschützer, which is german for “protector”. In the Bavarian-german slang it resembles the word even closer, we speak it like “Beschitza”

This one is a zombie. Andrew Gelman has been smacking it down for some time. The latest is at:
http://andrewgelman.com/2014/01/10/look-whos-3-years-date-whole-dennis-dentist-thing/

I understand Dr. Edmund Bergler was an authority on plagiarism.

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