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How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name
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on 3 Jun, 2014 | Modified 25 Jul, 2015 | Views 2599
If you know a Brittany, she is probably of college age or just a bit older. Half of living American Brittanys are between the ages of 19 and 25.
Picture Mildred, Agnes, Ethel and Blanche. Perhaps you imagine the Golden Girls or your grandmother’s poker game. These are names for women of age, wisdom and distinction. The median living Mildred in the United States is now 78 years old.
Now imagine Madison, Sydney, Alexa and Hailey. They sound like the starting midfield on a fourth-grade girls’ soccer team. And they might as well be: the median American females with these names are between 9 and 12 years old.
Read more:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-tell-someones-age-when-all-you-know-is-her-name/
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