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LyndsySimon
on July 17, 2020
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Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall,...
There is a hypothesis, “nominative determinism”, that posits that people tend to gravitate toward professions that “match” their names. I don’t fully buy it, but it’s an interesting idea that has at least some evidence to support it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
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