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Yes- Modern baby names are status symbols and are treated like a branding exercise by many helicopter-parents. Its both topical and relevant to the world we live in. As is the analytic exercise of extrapolation from incomplete but meaningul sub-sets of otherwise random-seeming data. Its the data-equivalent of found-object art, another past-time of the 20th century aspiring middle-classes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object



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