# Are donor dollars related to how long their names are?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/09/01/are-donor-dollars-related-how-long-their-names-are/
- Published: 2000-09-01T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Guest Blogger

**Does William give more than Bill? Is Thomas more generous than Tom? Peter Wylie,
a Washington, DC-based psychologist who specialises in data mining and statistical
modelling for non-profits, suggests that such a pattern exists.**

Wylie shares his research on this with UK fundraisers exclusively on UK Fundraising.

His paper is published in Adobe Acrobat:

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## More posts by Peter Wylie

 * [**Using your database to find major donors**](https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/01/15/using-your-database-find-major-donors/)**(
   15 January 2002)**
 * **[Nothing entered, something gained](https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/02/11/nothing-entered-something-gained/)(
   11 February 1999)**

## Books by Peter Wylie

 * [**Baseball, Fundraising and the 80/20 rule: studies in data mining**](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/baseball-fundraising-and-the-8020-rule-studies-in-data-mining/)
 * [**Data Mining for Fund Raisers**](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/data-mining-fund-raisers/)