The Dalton Conley is a sociologist at NYU. He has a book coming out soon called Parentology.

It's about, we're here. Let's have him tell you.

I think the subtitle says it all, which is a social scientist experiment on his kids

so you don't have to. Here they are.

So here they are. You guys want to introduce yourselves? I don't care who goes first.

Okay, I'm E. Like the letter. I'm 15 and I'm a student.

Okay, IE. I'm Yo. I'm in like the slang. I'm 13 and I'm a student too.

That's right. Dalton Conley named his daughter E and his son, Yo. But there's more.

Can you give your full name? E. Harper, Nora, Jerry Majenko Conley.

Okay, so E is your first name. The capitalizing.

The idea is that she can choose what it stands for.

Right. So you still call yourself E at 15. Do you do so happily?

Yes, I love my name. I play me.

I play me. I once your call telling your whole life. You can't really change it.

Yo, can you give us your full name?

Yes, sure. Yo, Xing, Hano, Augustus, Eisner, Alexander,

Weisser, Knuckles, Jerry Majenko Conley.

So Yo, okay, where's your first name? Yo, comes from where?

And I think you come from the Y chromosome.

And that we were confounding ethnic stereotypes. So, you know, plenty of,

there's plenty of Howard Chung's out there who assimilate to White America by

how they choose their first name as a classic immigrant strategy.

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