Chad
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Chad is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 22, 2023 and January 16, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Just ask Chad”; “a single glint of Chad’s perfectly-white teeth”. It most often appears alongside San Francisco, United States, ACX.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: December 22, 2023
- Last seen: January 16, 2026
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Related Pages
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- San Francisco (2 shared issues)
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Adams (1 shared issues)
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- Alexey Guzey (1 shared issues)
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- Alice (1 shared issues)
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- All-Seeing Eye (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- Avatar (1 shared issues)
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- barberpole theory of fashion (1 shared issues)
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- Bay Area (1 shared issues)
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- Bay Area House Party (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Now the statisticians have joined the fray: did you know that children with short first names earn over $10,000 more than longer ones? Or that men named "Jim" make 50% more than men named "Isaiah"? Is this causation or confounding? Names indicate whether you are black or white, rich or poor, and whether your parents are traditional or eccentric; what is left after adjusting for this effect? The only paper I’ve seen even begin to address the question is a sibling-control study by David Figlio, who finds that even within families, children with lower-class names perform worse. And you don’t need scientists to know that names affect how other people see you. Just ask Chad, Karen, Tyrone, or the poor doctor I worked with once named Osama (he went by “Sam”).
Inline links: did you know, a sibling-control study by David Figlio
The repressed object at the bottom of the nerd subconscious, the thing too scary to view except through humor, is that you’re smarter than everyone else, but for some reason it isn’t working. Somehow all that stuff about small talk and sportsball and drinking makes them stronger than you. No equation can tell you why. Your best-laid plans turn to dust at a single glint of Chad’s perfectly-white teeth.