They Get Paid for This?

Thank goodness people this dumb aren't involved in anything important like computer-modeling the climate. Oh wait, they are:

Researchers who studied the impact of initials found that baseballs players whose first or last name starts with the letter K, which signifies a strikeout, tended to strike out more often than other players.

And students whose names start with the letters C or D, which denote mediocre marks in some grading systems, did not perform as well as other pupils with different initials.

"Just having the right initial doesn't spontaneously make you a better baseball player, but it can spontaneously make you a slightly worse baseball player," said Leif Nelson, of the University of California, San Diego....

"These are domains where people really, really focus on top performance and still this unconscious desire to match their initial seems to be undermining their performance," Nelson explained in an interview.

There it is. The only question now is: Is Leif Nelson a loonie because of the 'L' of his first name, or is he a nitwit because of the 'N' of his last name.