Dan Kahan has the nice idea of randomizing the alphabet.

Sounds crazy. But there is interesting empiricism that people whose name starts earlier in the alphabet get an unfair advantage at various parts of life.

California has the cool idea of randomizing the alphabet so that for the purpose of listing candidates for office they will start alphabet in different elections with different random letters.

So candidates whoose name starts with A(yres) might not have unfair advantage of always being seen first.

Why not use this in other places. The government could announce a new starting letter of the alphabet each month..

Children could line up for research based on this random starting letter.

There would no longer be the arms race for AAAAAAcme Glass company in the Yellow Pages.

What do you think of this idea or comment?
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