Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stigler's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: stigler's law
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The cynical observation that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Example Sentences

"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)."

Etymology

Proposed in 1980 by statistics professor Stephen Stigler (born 1941).

Questions

What does stigler's law mean?: The cynical observation that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
Where does stigler's law come from?: Proposed in 1980 by statistics professor Stephen Stigler (born 1941).

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