The story about the two brothers, Winner and Loser Lane, disproves of any idea that one’s name has an effect on their destiny. Contrary to what most may assume, external influences such as friends, family life, and school life are the true factors in determining one’s success. The boys never grew up in hopes to live up to their name Robert Lane gave them but instead lived their lives the way outside stimuli shaped them. Ultimately, this situation displays parents’ intentions as invalid, which ends up furthering the idea that the only true influence is of the parents’ behavior. As previously stated, the names given to a child has little to nothing to do with their success, but the name’s origin can be traced back to family life, class status,…show more content… Yes, I agree with the claim that someone named Jake Williams is much more likely to be hired than a DeShawn Williams. This issue is simply due to the correlations people have pieced together and the results of the statistics and data. The data presented in Freakonomics illustrates that, on average, the name DeShawn is more likely to have a worse life outcome due to the fact that the people who would name their kid a distinctive black name are more expected to come from lower class and a poor neighborhood. However, this is not always the case for all, because this data is based on an average. Simply put, names serve as an indicator to an employer. While it may seem racist, an employer’s goal is to achieve the most money possible, make the business appealing to a consumer, and ultimately further their business. Overall, as an employer, the risk of receiving an unfit employee in comparison to a hard-working employee is too detrimental to risk, even though it is strictly statistical…show more content… The overall list of names in accordance to a higher social class indicate that a parent wants the best name to suit their future. For example, the name, Betty, may represent an upper-class name, which would be due to the fact that Bettys generally grow up in a pleasant neighborhood with caring parents and a stable socioeconomic status. However, when a lower-class parent names their kid Betty, that kid would grow up in an unstable environment with potentially uncaring parents. This parent may have named their kid based on how well previous Bettys have done in hopes that her kid would achieve higher success. Truly, any lower-class parent that does this is quite simply, mixing in the worse Bettys with the more successful ones, leaving the upper-class to present newer name. This cycle, however, is not entirely surprising as it is compared to clothing-style trends. Clothing styles hold the same cycle in similar ways. The similar cycle is just a product of people looking up to others such as celebrities and copying their style. People are different and enjoy being that way. When a clothing style is over-worn, a celebrity may be in search of a new style. As previously mentioned, the name one has does affect their potential hiring positions and the time it takes to be hired, along with the judgement of one’s name by others at a glance. All of this is purely due to what is associated with that name based on averaged statistics and assumptions by the typical
