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The effects of an alphabetically early surname on success are real but very small.
Drawn from what Richard Wiseman said
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- Richard Wiseman British psychologist and former magician
As a Wiseman, and therefore someone with a lifetime’s experience of coming towards the bottom of alphabetical lists, I take some comfort in the fact that these effect are all very small.
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