I Am Handsome And Confident

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Friends of mine are having a baby and looking for names. I headed over to http://www.babyzone.com to help out. While screwing around with the site I noticed the Perception Polls. People vote on what traits they think people with a certain name will have.

Needless to say, I had to check my own name out. My real name is Paul. Results?

In Appearance the big winner is Handsome with 27% of the votes.

In Personality the winner is Confident with 21% of the votes.

I did have to vote myself to get the results, but I did not choose the above (for the record, Cute and Funny).

[Bugs] He don’t know me very well, do he? [/Bugs] :wink:

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I had to click on “Baby Names” in the left frame, search for my name and then scroll down to get to the Perception Poll (an FYI for other dopers who want to try this).

The big winners for my name are:

  1. Beautiful (27%)
  2. Confident (19%)

Very similar to the OP. It would be interesting to see more results to see if most names come out this way or if is just a coinkydink.

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As a follow up, I voted on my husband’s name and his top 2 were Handsome (31%) and Confident (25%).
The name HAZEL came in with Exotic (20%) and Pretty (17%).

I have no idea what this means other than the fact that I am slacking really hard at work today.

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Handsome (26%) and confident (22%)

I’m spotting a pattern here…

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(note that they are 1st and 2nd on the poll list respectively. This may have something to do with it.)

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Even with Tevya’s instructions, I couldn’t figure out how to do it. Oh, well, it just would have come up with “Cranky Dowager” anyway . . .

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Me:

Exotic 18%
Attractive 27%
Plain 18%
Ugly 18%
Sophisticated 40%
Confident 40%
Outgoing 20%
Shy 20%
Geeky 20%

Hmmmm…

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I’m starting to wonder if all the Handsome/Beautiful and Confident results are what people are saying about themselves in order to see the poll results.

Just a theory.

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Pretty (23%) and Outgoing (21%). Pshaw.

Interestingly, the name I’m changing to comes in at Beautiful (29%) and Confident (25%). Guess I’m making a good decision! :wink:

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Appearance
Beautiful 19%
Exotic 7%
Attractive 20%
Pretty 22%
Plain 9%
Homely 3%
Ugly 1%
Cute 11%

Personality
Sophisticated 12%
Confident 17%
Outgoing 16%
Funny 14%
Serious 12%
Shy 13%
Geeky 4%
Feminine 12%

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Ginger:

Apparance:
22% Pretty
22% Exotic

Personality:
29% Outgoing

Alice:

Apparance:
22% Pretty

Personality:
19% Feminine

Well, this is interesting. I wonder what names get “Ugly” or “Geeky” as votes.

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That site scares me.

For my name [Elizabeth], I got:

Appearance
Beautiful 29%
Exotic 5%
Attractive 17%
Pretty 15%
Plain 2%
Homely 2%
Ugly 1%
Cute 7%

Personality
Sophisticated 27%
Confident 23%
Outgoing 14%
Funny 10%
Serious 11%
Shy 7%
Geeky 1%
Feminine 23%

So basically, Elizabeth’s are very beautiful, attractive, sophisticated and confident women. Sounds about right. looks smug

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A little surprise in the personality result. Having to vote, I chose outgoing; the hands down winner, though, was confident at 55%.

Alternate internet reality.

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For my name:
Appearance
Beautiful 26%
Exotic 10%
Attractive 19%
Pretty 21%
Plain 3%
Homely 3%
Ugly 2%
Cute 11%

Personality
Sophisticated 13%
Confident 17%
Outgoing 17%
Funny 13%
Serious 9%
Shy 9%
Geeky 2%
Feminine 19%

For my nicknameAbby:
Appearance
Beautiful 21%
Exotic 4%
Attractive 16%
Pretty 21%
Plain 11%
Homely 11%
Ugly 4%
Cute 20%

Personality
Sophisticated 7%
Confident 15%
Outgoing 20%
Funny 14%
Serious 3%
Shy 7%
Geeky 8%
Feminine 12%

For Eve:
Appearance
Beautiful 26%
Exotic 18%
Attractive 17%
Pretty 13%
Plain 2%
Homely 1%
Ugly 0%
Cute 5%

Personality
Sophisticated 21%
Confident 18%
Outgoing 14%
Funny 13%
Serious 11%
Shy 5%
Geeky 0%
Feminine 30%

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Eve, here you go so you can vote and then see the results yourself:

http://www.babyzone.com/babynames/babynamedisplay.asp?ID=21313

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I’m homely and geeky. :frowning:

[sub]What, you mean there’s a test? I thought you meant in general…[/sub]