Category
page 1Scientific folklore
folk psychology
explanation of people in terms of mental states
MMR vaccine controversy
claims of a link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autistic spectrum disorder
Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment
celebrated demonstration of the uniform acceleration of Earth surface gravity
folk taxonomy
vernacular, as opposed to scientific, naming system
folk linguistics
Aspect of linguistic studies
no free lunch theorem
the theorem that, if a machine-learning algorithm does well on some problems, then it pays for that on all other problems