Would correlation by any other name smell like causation?

A recent Yahoo News article asks the creative question of whether your . It turns out, it can. On some level this isn’t terribly surprising – names vary based on gender, ethnicity, and region of the country, all of which predict electoral choices. On a different level, it is sort of cool that you can predict who a person is going to vote for based on the name. Regardless, I’d like to offer a word of praise, and a word of complaint about this article.

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