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by PMan74 4243 days ago
> Posted by Ian Leader, Product Manager

Nominative determinism in action folks

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What? No, Google renames all its senior employees according to their function now.
I wonder if he's related to Jennifer Government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government)...
A guy at my uni graduated this year with an electrical engineering degree. His name is literally Zeus Engineer... (proof: http://nz.gradconnection.com/universities/university-of-auck... )
John Calendar must be feeling pretty crappy right about now.
His name precluded him from his first career choice of copy editing.
>> Posted by Ian Leader, Product Manager

>Nominative determinism in action folks

Selection|Reporting|Sampling bias in action folks.

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