New Study - Give Me a Break!

[msscamp]

I heard this on the news today. Latest study states that kids with surnames that begin in the last half of the alphabet are more inclined to rationalize things due to the fact that teachers line kids up by alphabetic names, and they are subconsciensely(sp?) trying to move themselves forward as a result of that. When is this **** going to end? When are people going to wake up and realize that life isn't fair, and sometimes it's just the luck of the draw for a lack of a better way of putting it?

 

[regolith]

Reading psychology would make you lose faith in the human race (I have five university-level textbooks on my bookshelf).

Rationalisation and the need to 'be right' is a big part of the psyche apparently - but there's too many people behave otherwise that you can take that with a big pinch of salt. They'll get ahead, better than the ones who think everything 'just happens' to them.

 

[john250]

I heard this on the news today. Latest study states that kids with surnames that begin in the last half of the alphabet are more inclined to rationalize things due to the fact that teachers line kids up by alphabetic names, and they are subconsciensely(sp?) trying to move themselves forward as a result of that. When is this be nice going to end? When are people going to wake up and realize that life isn't fair, and sometimes it's just the luck of the draw for a lack of a better way of putting it?

My surname starts with S, so I've spent some time at the back of the class seating chart. I'm pretty sure I qualify for some "dis-advantaged" payments because of this.
I also think it explains Hank Aaron's success.

 

[dun]

That must be why Wendel Wilkie lost to roosevelt

 

[LRTX1]

I heard this on the news today. Latest study states that kids with surnames that begin in the last half of the alphabet are more inclined to rationalize things due to the fact that teachers line kids up by alphabetic names, and they are subconsciensely(sp?) trying to move themselves forward as a result of that. When is this be nice going to end? When are people going to wake up and realize that life isn't fair, and sometimes it's just the luck of the draw for a lack of a better way of putting it?

My surname starts with S, so I've spent some time at the back of the class seating chart. I'm pretty sure I qualify for some "dis-advantaged" payments because of this.
I also think it explains Hank Aaron's success.

Well, how do we explain Cy Young then?

 

[VanC]

That must be why Wendel Wilkie lost to roosevelt

Yeah, but how did Obama beat McCain?

 

[VanC]

I heard this on the news today. Latest study states that kids with surnames that begin in the last half of the alphabet are more inclined to rationalize things due to the fact that teachers line kids up by alphabetic names, and they are subconsciensely(sp?) trying to move themselves forward as a result of that. When is this be nice going to end? When are people going to wake up and realize that life isn't fair, and sometimes it's just the luck of the draw for a lack of a better way of putting it?

My surname starts with S, so I've spent some time at the back of the class seating chart. I'm pretty sure I qualify for some "dis-advantaged" payments because of this.
I also think it explains Hank Aaron's success.

Well, how do we explain Cy Young then?

That's easy. They didn't do silly studies back then so nobody knew better. ;-)

 

[ROCKSPRINGS]

Someone got paid good money to do that study. (Goverment Grant) :bs: :bs: