Studies show link between names and performance

What's in a name? More than most parents bargained for. According to new studies published in the journal Psychological Science, baseball players whose names begin with the strikeout-signifying letter K strike out more than others. Students whose names begin with letters C and D achieve lower grade point averages than do students whose names begin with A and B.

And because lower GPAs lead to lesser graduate schools, students whose names begin with the letters C and D attend lower-ranked law schools than students whose names begin with A and B.

So where does that leave middle-of-the-alphabet names, like Isaac (the name of my newborn nephew)? Researchers say there's a very good chance that his favorite dessert will be ice cream, maybe he'll go into investment banking or ichthyology, and he'll listen to Iggy Pop.