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Your name affects the way your face develops or at least there is data to suggest this. Humans and AI can predict with significant accuracy what someone's name is based on their face. There is a reason Chad, Tyrone, Chang etc. is associated with a person that has a specific look to them.
Do a little experiment with me. What is his name below? (Please click on image to see his face properly)
Even if you got it wrong if I presented a few more of these the accuracy would raise. I think there is something to be said about how a name affects you psychologically and thus physiologically (?).
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I'll add in some more tests:
If you get 4/6 correct you are better than a top machine learning algorithm.
The short of the theory:
Another thing to try for yourself is search your personal name in the urban dictionary and see what people associate it with: https://www.urbandictionary.com/
I didn't want mention the obvious but Genes > name. But it is an interesting food for thought honestly. I've read another study about how having a name that makes you end up at the bottom of a list in school makes you generally more anxious to miss out in adult life. Because you are called last often.
Do a little experiment with me. What is his name below? (Please click on image to see his face properly)
A Dan
Even if you got it wrong if I presented a few more of these the accuracy would raise. I think there is something to be said about how a name affects you psychologically and thus physiologically (?).
Edit:
I'll add in some more tests:
A - Phoebe
B - Harry
C - Stephen
D - Alice
E - Tim
F - Daisy
B - Harry
C - Stephen
D - Alice
E - Tim
F - Daisy
If you get 4/6 correct you are better than a top machine learning algorithm.
The short of the theory:
This is because people grow to look more like their name, subconsciously changing their hairstyles, putting on weight, smiling or frowning.
For example, society generally expects men called Bob to have rounder faces than those called Tim, because the word looks round.
Another thing to try for yourself is search your personal name in the urban dictionary and see what people associate it with: https://www.urbandictionary.com/
I didn't want mention the obvious but Genes > name. But it is an interesting food for thought honestly. I've read another study about how having a name that makes you end up at the bottom of a list in school makes you generally more anxious to miss out in adult life. Because you are called last often.
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