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Why Some People Look Like Their Names


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Why Some People Look Like Their Names

If you've ever caught yourself thinking, "She looks like a Sue," or "He doesn't look like a Dave," a new study may back up your instincts about whether people's names suit them. In fact, people often do "look like their names," perhaps especially those named Tom or Veronique, the research suggests.

In the study, researchers found that people could correctly match an unfamiliar face to that person's name at a rate higher than expected due to chance, according to a new study. The study's participants, in Israel and France, were shown only color headshot photographs of 25 total strangers, and the researchers asked them to guess the stranger's name from a list of four or five name possibilities.

For example, a participant who is shown a face and given four names to choose from has a 25 percent chance of guessing the right name. But in the study, the 70 participants in Israel matched the correct name to the face about 30 percent of the time.

Read more: Live Science

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My Christian name is Daniel and I have been cursed by a Babylonian King to have a brace of lions follow me around; everywhere, at all times. Taco Bell line, bam 2 lions standing in line, bathroom, Whamzam, 2 lions sleeping in the tub, clocking in at work, wzuppzii 2 lions sitting in the office chairs drinking over sugared coffee while discussing the Greek financial crisis.

Often times people assume I am some sort of massively overpowered Druid Lord, but no, I am just a guy with lions haunting my every step.

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Just be glad they're not saber toothed tigers.

 

 

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My Christian name is Daniel and I have been cursed by a Babylonian King to have a brace of lions follow me around; everywhere, at all times. Taco Bell line, bam 2 lions standing in line, bathroom, Whamzam, 2 lions sleeping in the tub, clocking in at work, wzuppzii 2 lions sitting in the office chairs drinking over sugared coffee while discussing the Greek financial crisis.

Often times people assume I am some sort of massively overpowered Druid Lord, but no, I am just a guy with lions haunting my every step.

 

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