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    Are You More Likely to Be a Baker If You’re Named “Baker”?

    by Kevin Ferguson Mar 28, 2016 3 minutes

    You may like to imagine that your major life choices—where you live, who you marry, what you do for a living—are based on rational weighing of options. In your relationships, for example, you might seek someone that jives with your personality and shares your life interests, beliefs, and Netflix preferences. So the fact that you have a similar sounding name as your significant other, or share a birthday number (the number of the day you were born), shouldn’t factor in your decision at all—right?

    Well, maybe not. The idea that

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