本文採用2014年「華人家庭動態資料庫」，發現台灣人在命名前採用姓名筆劃術數已越來越普遍。敎育程度越高，採用姓名筆劃術數比例越高，要到父母敎育程度大學及以上，採用的比例才會下降。如果以快樂、主觀健康、婚姻狀況、受敎育年數、所得代表運勢，這些運勢都與隨機姓名筆劃的總格吉凶無關，前三項運勢也與算過筆劃與否無關，敎育年數與吉祥姓名筆劃雖正相關，但在控制算過與父母對子女敎育投資（遷過戶口與國中有補習）則無關，顯示父母的自我實踐。所得只有在不考慮敎育時，才與算過筆劃與否有關，顯示算過與否是透過敎育與所得相關。

Using the Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) 2014, this study finds that more and more young Taiwanese believe in the occult nature of the number of strokes in Chinese characters. Education does not reduce this belief. Unless individual's educational attainment is higher than or equal to a college degree, education actually encourages the belief. Using happiness, health status, marital status, educational attainment, and income to represent fate, one's fate is not associated with the number of strokes in one's Chinese name. The former three types of fate are not correlated with the number of Chinese name strokes. Educational attainment is positively associated with the degree of luck in the number of Chinese name strokes. This relation disappears, however when the manipulation of Chinese name strokes and parents' investment in children are controlled, indicating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Income is correlated with lucky number of strokes only when education is dropped, suggesting that the number of strokes is correlated with income through education.