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- 23 de Feb, 2019
I am specifically referring to the idea that names have some sort of connection to the person in some way, which way? Let's see.
For nominative determinism, I believe the notion restricts itself to career paths, life choices, and so on. So for example (random one, not necessarily accurate), Mr. Goldstein would tend to, even if slightly, get a job at something that deals with money or expensive stuff, like maybe working at a bank (outside of him being jewish). There is no evidence that would support the hypothesis that his name/surname alone is what made him gravitate towards that career, but this is not what I'm talking about, although it may be tangentially correlated.
Now for the face-name matching hypothesis, it involves the idea that human faces can evolve somehow into "matching" their name, according to either stereotypes or patterns, that for some reason are associated with that name.
Here is when we come to personal experience, and I want to say that I come from a place of skepticism, so if this phenomenon is not attributed to coincidence and statistical likelihood, then there must be something else, backed by science (even if not yet), that would explain it.
For my anecdotes, this has happened to me numerous times, where I was able to successfully predict the name of complete strangers (from common to semi-common, like monikers) given their face structure. It appears that, if there is a determining trait that would make this name have an "identity" (or range of identities), it would involve their specific sounds or maybe how they're thought of being written as (meaning, Elena and Helen, same name in different languages, produce different "identities" because they're written/spoken differently).
Furthermore, there has been instances on top of that, where I managed to predict the order of correct vowels in their name and sometimes consonants, like I would say "she for sure has a name that starts with L, and I can see her having an A and a U in it, maybe another A by the end of it, is she Laura?" and boom, that's her name. Again, multiple instances of this, however this doesn't mean that there aren't outliers, just that a suspicious amount of coincidences happen against the unlikelihood of such prediction.
Finally, the more complex the name is, the harder it is to guess. This would reveal that statistics/dumb luck plays a heavy role in it, however the prediction of vowels/consonants sometimes remains constant, this is what I referred to as a "range of identities". Like for example: "well, if she isn't Sonia, maybe it's Monica", and she would be (something like that as an example, don't take this one literally, with the point being, that the predicted letters/sounds was accurate to a high degree for no good apparent reason).
Any thoughts? Does this happen to you as well? Is it simple coincidence, or is there more to it?
For nominative determinism, I believe the notion restricts itself to career paths, life choices, and so on. So for example (random one, not necessarily accurate), Mr. Goldstein would tend to, even if slightly, get a job at something that deals with money or expensive stuff, like maybe working at a bank (outside of him being jewish). There is no evidence that would support the hypothesis that his name/surname alone is what made him gravitate towards that career, but this is not what I'm talking about, although it may be tangentially correlated.
Now for the face-name matching hypothesis, it involves the idea that human faces can evolve somehow into "matching" their name, according to either stereotypes or patterns, that for some reason are associated with that name.
Here is when we come to personal experience, and I want to say that I come from a place of skepticism, so if this phenomenon is not attributed to coincidence and statistical likelihood, then there must be something else, backed by science (even if not yet), that would explain it.
For my anecdotes, this has happened to me numerous times, where I was able to successfully predict the name of complete strangers (from common to semi-common, like monikers) given their face structure. It appears that, if there is a determining trait that would make this name have an "identity" (or range of identities), it would involve their specific sounds or maybe how they're thought of being written as (meaning, Elena and Helen, same name in different languages, produce different "identities" because they're written/spoken differently).
Furthermore, there has been instances on top of that, where I managed to predict the order of correct vowels in their name and sometimes consonants, like I would say "she for sure has a name that starts with L, and I can see her having an A and a U in it, maybe another A by the end of it, is she Laura?" and boom, that's her name. Again, multiple instances of this, however this doesn't mean that there aren't outliers, just that a suspicious amount of coincidences happen against the unlikelihood of such prediction.
Finally, the more complex the name is, the harder it is to guess. This would reveal that statistics/dumb luck plays a heavy role in it, however the prediction of vowels/consonants sometimes remains constant, this is what I referred to as a "range of identities". Like for example: "well, if she isn't Sonia, maybe it's Monica", and she would be (something like that as an example, don't take this one literally, with the point being, that the predicted letters/sounds was accurate to a high degree for no good apparent reason).
Any thoughts? Does this happen to you as well? Is it simple coincidence, or is there more to it?
