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> Posted by Ian Leader, Product Manager

Nominative determinism in action folks



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.

;0)




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