(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 ()
So many examples have been reported by readers over the years, that we have frequently…
