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Stigler's Law of Eponymy
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Stigler's Law of Eponymy

Colin Wright
Nov 16, 2021
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Brain Lenses
Stigler's Law of Eponymy
Proposed by statistics professor Stephen Stigler in 1980, Stigler's Law of Eponymy posits that there isn't a scientific discovery named after a person that is named after the person who actually discovered it. This runs contrary to the popular and understandable belief that, for instance, the Pythagorean Theorem, was named for Pythagoras because he disco…
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