Talk:List of examples of Stigler's law

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The United States of America? 132.162.79.247 (talk) 01:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Yup. I added it. Secret Squïrrel, approx 11:35, 14 Rocktober 2008 (Earth Standard Time)

My computer doesn't like editing Wikipedia articles, so someone be sure to add Snell's law, which was discovered by Ibn Sahl. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.97.56.173 (talk) 03:59, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

newton 1st law

is made by Galileo, but I have no reference, someone put it there please if anyone find the reference.ArielGenesis (talk) 07:21, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Geiger Counter

I believe was invented by Geiger's student Marston, (Marsden?) If anybody wants to use this. I don't know what I'm doing editing wiki pages and am much more likely to mess it up than improve it, so I'll leave that to anybody else that wants to use it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.120.136 (talk) 03:34, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Darwin

Should NATURAL SELECTION by Charles Darwin be included in this list? A number of people preceded Darwin by putting the idea in print before him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.64.231.194 (talk) 02:18, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

As Ernst Mayr has pointed out, "Darwin's theory" of evolution by natural selection is really a complex synthesis of five discrete theories that are at least in principle independent, and several of these component theories (such as "descent with modification") were indeed anticipated by others (often quite different others, which was Mayr's point). However, the mechanism of natural selection, though crucial, is only a small part of Darwinism and by itself is rarely associated with Darwin's name (as in "Darwinian selection"). Thus I am not at all sure it would count as an example of Stigler's law. In fact, given how much the modern neo-Darwinian synthesis owes to August Weismann, I am not at all sure it's not an example of the reverse :) Nude Amazon (talk) 02:59, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Matthew effect

The Matthew effect belongs if at all under See also; it is correctly attributed to its source. — Robert Greer (talk) 16:17, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Clarke's First Law

Clarke's First Law:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Alfred Russel Wallace:

The whole history of science shows us that whenever the educated and scientific men of any age have denied the facts of other investigators on a priori grounds of absurdity or impossibility, the deniers have always been wrong.

--Pawyilee (talk) 14:26, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Fibonacci Numbers

Fibonacci was not the one who discovered the famous series, they existed in Indian mathematics since 200 B.C (Fibonacci gave them in 1202 AD) Nishanth Dikkala (talk) 19:37, 8 July 2013 (UTC) Nishanth Dikkala

References

Double Helix

I've heard Rosalind Franklin may belong to this club for her DNA work.--Billymac00 (talk) 14:15, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Metonic Cycle

The Metonic Cycle might not qualify as a "discovery", perhaps being more of a practice. But if others think it merits consideration for Stigler's law, from the WP article on the Babylonian calendar https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Babylonian_calendar "Although usually called the Metonic cycle after Meton of Athens (432 BC), Meton probably learned of the cycle from the Babylonians." Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host (talk) 15:34, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Plateau's Problem

According to the Wikipedia page: "In mathematics, Plateau's problem is to show the existence of a minimal surface with a given boundary, a problem raised by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1760. However, it is named after Joseph Plateau who experimented with soap films." - which makes it an example of Stigler's Law? --193.84.225.234 (talk) 12:05, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Newton-Raphson

Originally invented by Simpson. 107.184.74.149 (talk) 03:27, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Shavian alphabet

Invented by Ronald Kingsley Read. 89.33.114.26 (talk) 07:01, 18 October 2024 (UTC)