Saturday 13 September 2014

The Keyboard's Strange Impact On Your Baby's Name

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Parenthood is filled with emotional, semi-rational decisions, and none of these is more visceral than naming a baby. Today's most popular names have a weird commonality - they're mostly written with the right hand on a typical keyboard.

For the past few years, researchers have been developing theories about the QWERTY effect, where letters typed with the right hand are considered more positive than those typed with the left hand. That has an impact on the names we choose for babies.

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