# Sometimes education can make you stupid.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-education-can-make-you-stupid/684239>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 21, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-education-can-make-you-stupid/684239 "2014-03-21T18:43:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-education-can-make-you-stupid/684239/41 "2015-01-25T20:29:36Z")

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> [@pohjonen](#):
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> Immunizations. That should be easy. I select “Polio” and it wants the exact date and won’t let you progress without it. Ah, I remember it well. It was a Tuesday, October 5, 1959. It was raining.

The doctors wore white. The girl in front of me wore blue.

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**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-education-can-make-you-stupid/684239/42 "2015-01-26T18:00:25Z")

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> [@BrotherCadfael](#):
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> Here’s an interesting article about just how difficult it can be to write programs to accommodate variant name formats: [Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names](http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/).
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> Eye-opening, especially #40.

I read a story once about someone who, for some reason, had only one legal name and was living in the US. They decided that they really wanted at least a first and last name, and went to the local courthouse to get one. The court, however, rejected the name change petition on the grounds that one must declare their current full name to qualify for a name change, and wouldn’t accept a single name as one’s current, full, legal name.

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