Scary name analysis from the Kabalarians.

[baratron]

I remember looking at the Kabalarians' site many years ago, but back then they didn't have my name listed. Now it's there: http://www.kabalarians.com/female/helen-louise.htm.

I'm extremely sceptical about their philosophy, but I can't help feeling that this analysis is scarily accurate:

Your name of Helen-louise gives you a strong sense of responsibility in business and material affairs, and the practicality and determination to make a success of anything you undertake. You are self-sufficient and capable, and have an interest in positions of leadership and responsibility. You are competent in directing the efforts of others, as you have good business judgment and the natural understanding of people. Very likely you have assumed much responsibility early in life and are often required to make major decisions. You appreciate settled, accumulative conditions, and a high standard of living. You have a strong, determined nature and tend to dominate others, and to interfere, at times, in your desire to be helpful. This name gives you many good characteristics, but it is too strong, creating a materialistic nature and bringing out a forceful, demanding quality. The heavy responsibility your name creates can result in a worrying, intense nature. It spoils the development and expression of your warmer, more feminine attributes. It causes tension and allied problems in the female organs.

Comments

[rosefox]

Erm... "Kabalarian" and "Kalabarian" are two different things. There is no "Kalabarian" site, so you may want to fix that first link.

Mine is really bizarrely accurate. That's so strange.

I never said I could spell...

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I'm not very good at cutting and pasting from linux to Windows. Sometimes it works, and sometimes Exceed decides to be bloody evil and I have to type the link by hand.

It's fixed now.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

entertainingly, the analyses for meirion as a female name, and for my real name, are identical. and aren't much like me at all, really. i think the analysis for meirion as a male name fits me much better. wonder what that says about me ?

-m-

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

Your name of Marmite creates a quick, clever mind capable of grasping and assimilating new ideas. You are rather studious, mentally challenging each new idea before accepting it. Because you learn so quickly you have little patience with those whose mental processes are somewhat slower, and you could become supercilious or somewhat "know it all" in your attitude. This characteristic could make you rather unpopular with your associates. Although you are very knowledgeable and intelligent, you often find spontaneous verbal expression difficult. You crave friendship, understanding, love, and affection abut your reserved manner appears forbidding to others. You can give expression to your personal thoughts and feelings most fluently through the written word. You have a sensitive nature--sensitive to your environment and particularly sensitive to how your deeper and more serious interests are regarded by others. Your feelings are very easily hurt and to protect yourself you withdraw within the realms of your own private thoughts and shut out the rest of the world. Moods, which are your worst enemy, result. Your sensitivity and lack of verbal expression frustrate and limit the satisfaction in life to be gained from your responsible and capable nature. Health problems arise due to worry and a sensitivity in the respiratory area which could lead to problems with the heart, lungs, or bronchial organs.

And it fails to mention that if you name your baby this, make sure he never comes to the UK.

[mathochist.livejournal.com]

Mine for "Angela" was eerily accurate, too. Not for "Angi", though, at all.

Barnum statements

[londonstatto.livejournal.com]

Sorry to spoil the party, but such sites, much like most horoscopes (and certainly all newspaper horoscopes) use Barnum statements, that is, phrases that seem specific to the reader, but actually have the same level of meaning to 95% of the target population....

:)

Re: Barnum statements

[londonstatto.livejournal.com]

& I tried a pseudo-HTML slash-sceptic there, but LJ just ignored it :(

Calling all the scientists...

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Let's see if I can post this before the thing I have running in my other Netscape window decides to crash and take this out with it...

I don't dispute what you're saying about Barnum statements (interesting name that - I should look it up). One of the reasons I am so surprised about the Kabalarian site is that despite being sceptical, the majority of the statements made for a particular name fit the person I know with that name very well in the majority of cases. For example, the analysis of the name Peter (http://www.kabalarians.com/male/peter.htm) contains a bit about "an inclination to physical activity". If that was in my name, or Richard's, or Tim's, we'd be laughing - but as it is, the Peter we know has a thing about cycling and swimming.

I'd like to conduct some sort of experiment with the site, but I'm not sure how to do so in an unbiased way. The idea I've had is to get the analysis of the names of 10 or so people that I know well, separate the names from the analyses, and see how accurately I and other people can match them up without cheating and looking at the site. Does that sound a reasonable experiment? Who wants to help me with it?

Re: Barnum statements

[londonstatto.livejournal.com]

Having said that, mine is pretty crap, with the most relevant bit being "ailments relative to the liver", and that's only because of drinking too much... *LOL*