Message-ID: <47CD20B7.6020408@bitwrit.com.au>
Date: 2008-03-04T10:13:11Z
From: Jim Lemon
Subject: [OT] "normal" (as in "Guassian")
Douglas Bates wrote:
> ...
> Taking this to a whole new level of "off topic", I wonder if Stigler's
> Law is self-referential? That is, should Stigler's Law more correctly
> be attributed to someone else?
The complaint has been around for a long time. Zeno's paradox "Achilles
and the tortoise" is said to have been first enunciated by Parmenides.
Perhaps Stigler should have titled his paper "Stigler's Law of Lathosonyms".
Jim