Help with verifying foreign names in World Class.jmp for JMP 13 sample data library

Question

The attached World Class data table includes the same kinds of data as Big Class but with foreign names. I’d like to add it to the JMP 13 sample data library.

Reviewers commented that some names were old-fashioned, odd, or politically controversial. They’ve verified most of the names.

Can anyone verify that the Albanian, Basque, Finnish, Gaelic, Icelandic, and Swedish names are:

* realistic for 12- to 17-year olds
* appropriate for the given language
* appropriate for the given gender
* spelled properly
* not widely controversial (such as “Adolph” or “Mao”. “Joseph” and other vague names are OK.)

If you can point me to reviewers for these languages, that’d be great.

Other comments on the data are welcome. I’m also sending this email to the JMP Dev list.

Thanks for your help,

Sheila

World Class Draft.jmp

sheila_loring · Answer

Martin, thank you for the lesson in German names. "Thorsten" does sound like an older gentleman! I appreciate the alternatives, too.

martindemel · Answer

Hi Sheila,

As a father of a 15y old daughter telling me many stories of their classmates I have several names heard (besides the ones we considered during birth time now 15y ago ) I looked at the German names and there are some very old fashioned and not very famous names. Here a list of reasons and alternatives:

The other names are fine in my eyes.

Regards,

Martin

PS: also for the 10 year olds These Name alternatives are valid