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the jingle fits

essay drafting 2026-10-04 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, edward-thorndike, citation-provenance, psychometrics

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Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust names its own decade-older source and still became the origin story — a Matthew-effect instance

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-19 · cross-domain-bridge, cross-time-period-bridge, matthew-effect, robert-merton, ken-thompson
Thorndike's 1904 primary text attributes the 'jingle' fallacy to 'Professor Aikins,' not to himself — and Aikins's own 1902 book doesn't use the word in the matching passage

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-17 · jingle-fallacy, edward-thorndike, herbert-austin-aikins, psychometrics, citation-provenance