Murphy's law — For other uses, see Murphy s Law (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Muphry s law. Murphy s law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong . Contents 1 History 2 Association with Murphy … Wikipedia
List of eponymous laws — This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person. In some cases the person named has coined the law – such as Parkinson s law. In others, the work or… … Wikipedia
Gordon Newton — Born Leslie Gordon Newton 16 September 1907(1907 09 16) Muswell Hill, Middlesex, England Died 31 August 1998(1998 08 31) (aged 90) Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England Education Sidney Sussex C … Wikipedia
CSI effect — Forensic science Physiological sciences … Wikipedia
Tragedy of the commons — Cows on Selsley Common. The tragedy of the commons is one way of accounting for overexploitation. The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally consulting… … Wikipedia
Unintended consequence — Unintended consequences are outcomes that are not (or not limited to) what the actor intended in a particular situation. The unintended results may be foreseen or unforeseen, but they should be the logical or likely results of the action. For… … Wikipedia
Externality — External redirects here. For other uses, see External (disambiguation). In economics, an externality (or transaction spillover) is a cost or benefit, not transmitted through prices,[1] incurred by a party who did not agree to the action causing… … Wikipedia
Risk compensation — In ethology, risk compensation is an effect whereby individual people may tend to adjust their behavior in response to perceived changes in risk. It is seen as self evident that individuals will tend to behave in a more cautious manner if their… … Wikipedia
Butterfly effect — For other uses, see Butterfly effect (disambiguation). Point attractors in 2D phase space. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result … Wikipedia
Hawthorne effect — The Hawthorne effect is a form of reactivity whereby subjects improve or modify an aspect of their behavior being experimentally measured simply in response to the fact that they know they are being studied,[1][2] not in response to any… … Wikipedia
