→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundO→“Matthew Effect” while writing a paper discussing how seniority or perceived prestige seemed to be the deciding factor in who would be given credit for a scientific discovery or breakthrough, regardless of the actual work put in by those involved. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/02/stiglers-law-eponymy/ Sources: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/BA_1916_2.html http://www.jstor.org/stable/2978134?origin=crossref&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2164-0947.1980.tb02775.x/abstract http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/merton/matthew1.pdf http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/12/in-the-air http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5461712 http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/merton/matthew1.pdf https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0-q3MAAACAAJ&dq=Science+and+Social+Structure:+A+Festschrift+for+Robert+K.Merton+(New+York+Academy+of+Science+Transactions)&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiaoeqdo4DLAhXEORQKHf75AyQQ6AEIHTAA https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qQusWukdPa4C&pg=PA277&dq=stigler%27s+law+of+eponymy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJ-YmgmIDLAhUDVxQKHYd7DeYQ6wEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=stigler's%20law%20of%20eponymy&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Stigler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_K._Merton