APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
The Lives of 'jacob' and 'emily'; Predictors of Name Popularity Vary in Magnitude and Direction over Time
- John Waggoner
Bloomsburg University
Abstract
Effects of demographic variables on the popularity of the names ‘Jacob’ and ‘Emily’ varied in magnitude and direction when examined over a 20-year timeframe, suggesting that naming research which focuses on a single year’s data is likely to misrepresent the effects of relevant predictors.
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