[Theforum] [Axmin] Article Alert - Have your say - evolt.org survey (fwd)
A. Erickson
amanda at gawow.com
Sun Dec 2 22:29:19 CST 2001
So... Does that mean that Matt is patient?
- amanda
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> - evolt.org survey (fwd)
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> also, it's Velasco, not Valesco
> (http://evolt.org/user/mantruc/138/index.html)
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> there was an article in the paper here recently about
> somebody who conducted an academic study on successful people
> (scientists? teachers? politicians? i cannot recall)
>
> anyhow, the premise was, that there is a disproportionate
> number of successful people whose surnames are in the first
> half of the alphabet
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> the rationalization was that the people whose names are near
> the end of the alphabet get (subconsciously?) adjusted to
> waiting -- in class, etc. -- for their name to be called,
> that they eventually end up less competitive because of it
>
> or something like that
>
> anyhow, take a look at our list of contributors
>
> M is the 13th letter, so it's still in the first half of the alphabet
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> rudy
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