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Sam_Bass @lemmy.world

7 mo. ago • 73%

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phys.org Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order

Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.

Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order

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Damn, my wife and I were on the fence about which last name to give our son or to hyphenate.

Hers is C mine is R, but if we hyphenated it’d be almost 20 letters long and use every vowel. So we went with my last name from just tradition.

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- Long as you teach the kid to take responsibility for his/her own work or lack thereof its all good
  
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Why would you not post the headline, isn't that the whole point of this community?

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- Headline is 15 words as shown in the tagline.
  
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  Only in the standard Lemmy web ui it seems, not in any of the clients I just checked
  
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