John Pfaff penned an article for the Huffington Post about the faults in a study that show a correlation between first names and crime.
Papers around the world, from the Chicago Tribune to the Daily Telegraph to the Times of India, along with respectable blogs such as Science Daily, have likely terrified hundreds, if not thousands, of parents. All are reporting on an empirical paper making an eye-catching claim: give your male child an unpopular name, and you have condemned him to a life of crime. Amazon must be doing brisk business selling baby-naming books today.
To all those anxious parents and parents-to-be I can say only this: put these books down. Everything is going to be fine.
