What's this student's name?: New studies show that there's more than coincidence to students' grades and the first letters of their names. The "name-letter" effect shows more students with names starting with "C" or "D" getting lower grades than students with names starting with "A"
Courtesy MobilskiThis is pretty weird, but people have data to back it up. I guess that makes me solidly in the skeptical category.

Recent studies conducted by researchers at Yale and California-San Diego have found that the letters of your name can have a big impact on the success or failure you experience in life. It’s called the “name-letter effect.”

Stay with me here. According to the research, students with names that started with “C” or “D” generally had lower grades than students whose names start with “A” or “B.” Likewise, major league baseball players with a name that starts with “K” were statistically more likely to strike out at the plate than other hitters. “K” is the baseball scoring symbol for a strikeout.

And through more analysis of the “name-letter effect,” it appears that it works more regularly in a negative way than positively. And when you get down to the finer print, researchers admit that the trends are only slight, but larger than you would associate with things just being coincidental.

So what do you think? Share your thoughts here on the “name-letter effect.” Have you seen it at play in your life experience?

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