An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming
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| author | Blumer, Katy Donahue, Kate Fritz, Katie Ivanovich, Kate Lee, Katherine Luo, Katie Meng, Cathy Van Koevering, Katie |
| author_facet | Blumer, Katy Donahue, Kate Fritz, Katie Ivanovich, Kate Lee, Katherine Luo, Katie Meng, Cathy Van Koevering, Katie |
| contents | In this paper, we study the highly competitive arena of baby naming. Through making several Extremely Reasonable Assumptions (namely, that parents are myopic, perfectly knowledgeable agents who pick a name based solely on its uniqueness), we create a model which is not only tractable and clean, but also perfectly captures the real world. We then extend our investigation with numerical experiments, as well as analysis of large language model tools. We conclude by discussing avenues for future research. |
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| spellingShingle | An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming Blumer, Katy Donahue, Kate Fritz, Katie Ivanovich, Kate Lee, Katherine Luo, Katie Meng, Cathy Van Koevering, Katie Computer Science and Game Theory Computers and Society In this paper, we study the highly competitive arena of baby naming. Through making several Extremely Reasonable Assumptions (namely, that parents are myopic, perfectly knowledgeable agents who pick a name based solely on its uniqueness), we create a model which is not only tractable and clean, but also perfectly captures the real world. We then extend our investigation with numerical experiments, as well as analysis of large language model tools. We conclude by discussing avenues for future research. |
| title | An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming |
| topic | Computer Science and Game Theory Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00732 |