Stigler's law
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Proposed in 1980 by statistics professor Stephen Stigler (born 1941).
Proper noun[edit]
- The cynical observation that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
- 2020, Ferenc Csatári, Measurement and Meaning, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 83:
- Thus Hempel's paradox, later indeed popularized by Hempel, is a nice example of Stigler's law: nothing is named after its inventor. It[sic] worth noting that according to Stigler's testimony, Stigler's law is also an example of Stigler's law, being invented by the sociologist Robert K. Merton (Stigler 1980).