(Image: Paul McDevitt) (Image: Paul McDevitt)
Return of nominative determinism
READERS new to Feedback may be unaware of our attempts over the years to expand humanity’s understanding of nominative determinism – the phenomenon, first identified in this column, in which people’s names appear to have determined their choice of work. The pig researcher named Alex Hogg is an example (bit.ly/AlexHogg), as is the paper on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology by A. J. Splatt and D. Weedon, which started the whole thing off (bit.ly/nomdetwiki)
So many examples have been reported by readers over the years, that we have frequently…
