So much about “holodomor no food”, huh?

  • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Larysa Boden

    Agribusiness lobbyist with surname literally meaning 'soil' is yet another proof we live in a simulation.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      That and the fact that the FTX guy's name includes "bank man" really scrambled my eggs

    • Kumikommunism [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Okay, I wanted to make sure I had the name for this phenomenon right, but found something way funnier on the Wikipedia page because I was bored.

      In 2015 researchers Limb, Limb, Limb and Limb published a paper on their study into the effect of surnames on medical specialisation. They looked at 313,445 entries in the medical register from the General Medical Council, and identified surnames that were apt for the speciality, for example, Limb for an orthopaedic surgeon, and Doctor for medicine in general. They found that the frequency of names relevant to medicine and to subspecialties was much greater than expected by chance. Specialties that had the largest proportion of names specifically relevant to that specialty were those for which the English language has provided a wide range of alternative terms for the same anatomical parts (or functions thereof). Specifically, these were genitourinary medicine (e.g., Hardwick and Woodcock) and urology (e.g., Burns, Cox, Ball).

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism