Garbage-In-Garbage-Out with AI

The Economist has an article on the changing fashions of baby names by analyzing the first names of 400 million people born in USA and the UK in the last 143 years. There are two novel elements in this analysis. The first is that the names are not analyzed simply by frequencies, but are first assigned to eight main categories: strength , intelligence , benevolence/love , beauty , religion , joy ,…