Baskerville effect
nounEtymology
Named after the Baskerville family from Arthur Conan Doyle's crime novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Definitions
The alleged self-fulfilling prophecy that there is an increase in rate of mortality…
The alleged self-fulfilling prophecy that there is an increase in rate of mortality through heart attacks on days considered unlucky because of the psychological stress this causes on superstitious people.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Baskerville effect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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