Talk:Stigler's law of eponymy

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Contents 1 VfD, anyone? 2 Churchill's law or Stigler's law? 3 Planck's constant 4 merge

[edit] VfD, anyone?

True or false: this page deserves to be on Vfd. 66.32.95.180 01:39, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

False. There are quite a few fans devoted to collecting "real-life" examples, which are legion, at least in mathematics. See List of misnamed theorems.---CH 18:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Churchill's law or Stigler's law?

I propose that "Stigler's law of eponymy" should be named "Churchill's law of eponymy". This a) ensures that the law is not self contradictory, and b) pays homage to the fact that Winston Churchill is falsely credited with coining quotations all to often. (TRD) Thu Sep 16 16:11:01 BST 2004

No, no, no, as the article says, Stigler himself credited the law to Merton, but it is called Stigler's law regardless. This self-referential aspect is absolutely delightful! See e.g. Cramer's Paradox in List of misnamed theorems.---CH 18:53, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Planck's constant

Is there any reference for the claim Planck's constant wasn't introduced by Planck? Notjim 22:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] merge

this should be merged with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_conjecture —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.100.43.50 (talk) 20:14, 9 July 2007

This is a crazy suggestion. The content of law and conjecture are unrelated. The Stiglers are not the same person although they are related, as father and son. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.78.227.233 (talk) 13:09, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Stigler's law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Stigler's conjecture: Credit for every idea in economics (and possibly other fields) is always given to the second person to have discovered it

It seems to me that the two are very closely related, the second is a strong version of the first, except that one is about "science", the other "economics". The articles should be merged.

Aleph-4 (talk) 16:28, 7 May 2008 (UTC)