Drunkard's search

Drunkard's search

Drunkard's search is a way of conducting a search to look in the place that's easiest, rather than in the place most likely to yield results. Taken from an old joke about a drunkard who loses his car keys while unlocking his car and is found looking under a streetlamp down the road because the light is better, it has been an object of consideration in the social sciences since at least 1964.[1]

References

  1. ^ Kaplan, Abraham (1964). The Conduct of Inquiry. Transaction Publishers. pp. 11. ISBN 978-0-7658-0448-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=ks8wuZHSKs8C. Retrieved 2009-04-20. 


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