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Blinkers and intuitions

Our intuitions may inadvertently fit us with blinkers

If you live in the UK as an expatriate and have a name like mine, you stand out. Yes, you have to learn to live with a wide variety of creative pronunciations of your moniker, but it has advantages too. Having a rare name means people remember you more easily, and if they have to look it up, the odds are there is going to be just one…