SCIENCE AGREES - YOUR CRUMMY LIFE REALLY IS YOUR PARENTS’ FAULT

Strange research into the effect that your name has on your life choices had found that people unconsciously make decisions based on their names or initials. Studies carried out by psychologists in marketing at Yale and the University of California found that people are disproportionately likely to live in states or cities resembling their names, have careers that resemble their names and marry those whose surnames begin with the same letter as their own. Even more bizarre, the “name-letter effect” applies more to negative things than to the positive. For example, students whose names begin with a C or a D generally get lower grades than those whose names begin with an A or a B. "We found that our own-name liking sabotages success for people whose initials match negative performance labels," said a report published in the journal Psychological Science. A study from a few years ago also found that people with "good" monograms such as GOD, ACE, or WOW, lived over seven years longer than people whose monograms spelled words such as PIG, RAT, DUD, or ILL. (USA Today)