[OT] "normal" (as in "Guassian")
On 4 Mar 2008, at 08:20, Ingmar Visser wrote:
Wikipedia says: Stigler attributes the discovery of Stigler's Law to Robert K. Merton (which makes the law self-referencing).
Stigler's law certainly applies in mathematics, where standard procedure is to name a concept in honour of the first person after Euler to have (re)discovered it. rksh
(Working as a historian of science he should have proceeded to name the law Merton's law only to find out later that actually someone had discovered it even earlier.) Ingmar [edit] On 3 Mar 2008, at 19:17, Douglas Bates wrote:
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