List of eponymous tests
Eponymous tests are generally named after the person who first described the test.
Letter | Test | Name | Description |
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A | Apgar | Virginia Apgar | Used to quickly assess the health of a newborn infant |
A | Apley | Alan Graham Apley | Used to evaluate people for problems in the meniscus of the knee |
B | Bechdel, Bechdel-Wallace | Alison Bechdel, Liz Wallace | Used as an indicator for the active presence of women in films and other fiction, and to call attention to gender inequality in fiction |
F | Flesch–Kincaid | Rudolf Flesch, J. Peter Kincaid | Used to measure how difficult it is to understand a piece of text written in English. |
M | Myers–Briggs | Isabel Briggs Myers, Katharine Cook Briggs | Used to identify psychological types from a Jungian perspective. |
P | Rorschach | Hermann Rorschach | Used to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. |
R | Parks–Bielschowsky also known as the Park's three-step test or the Bielschowsky head tilt test | Marshall M. Parks, Alfred Bielschowsky | Used to test for palsy of the superior oblique muscle. |
S | Szondi | Léopold Szondi | Used to analyze personalities. |
T | Turing | Alan Turing | Used to test a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. |
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