@hammancheez @rodhilton It's called the Gell-Mann-Amnesia Effect:
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/
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@hammancheez @rodhilton It's called the Gell-Mann-Amnesia Effect: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/ 1 comment
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@datenwolf @hammancheez @rodhilton the article is succinct and to the point, and I love the last bit:
"By the way, why is the effect named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann?"
Crichton explained "I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have."