List of eponymous tests

Eponymous tests are generally named after the person who first described the test.

Letter Test Name Description
A Abel Frederick Abel Used to determine the flash point of a given sample of petroleum in order to ascertain the temperature at which it could safely be used
A Allen's Edgar Van Nuys Allen Used to assess the quality of arterial blood flow to the hand before arterial blood sampling or some surgeries
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
A Apt Leonard Apt Used in newborns with blood in the stool to distinguish between swallowed maternal blood and neonatal gastrointestinal bleeding
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
D Duess Louisa Düss Projective test for young children.
E Ebert Roger Ebert Used to find out whether a computer-based synthesized voice can tell a joke with sufficient skill to cause people to laugh.
F Flesch–Kincaid Rudolf Flesch, J. Peter Kincaid Used to measure how difficult it is to understand a piece of text written in English.
G Gilman Henry Gilman Detection of Grignard reagents and organolithium reagents
H Holtzman Inkblot Wayne H. Holtzman Projective personality test similar to the Rorschach, aimed at detecting personality.
I Ishihara Shinobu Ishihara Color perception test for red-green color deficiencies
M Miller Marvin Miller Used by the United States Supreme Court for determining whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene, in which case it is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and can be prohibited.[1][2]
M Myers–Briggs Isabel Briggs Myers, Katharine Cook Briggs Used to identify psychological types from a Jungian perspective.
P 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.
R Rorschach Hermann Rorschach Used to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning.
S Scoville Organoleptic Wilbur Scoville Measure the pungency (spiciness or "heat") of chili peppers, as recorded in Scoville Heat Units (SHU), based on the concentration of capsaicinoids, among which capsaicin is the predominant component.[3][4][5][6][7]
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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  1. ^ "Three Prong Obscenity Test", Professionalism in Computing, Virginia Tech, retrieved June 28, 2010
  2. ^ https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1613&context=law_lawreview [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ Twilight Greenaway (10 January 2013). "How Hot is That Pepper? How Scientists Measure Spiciness". Smithsonian.com, US Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  4. ^ Guzmán, I; Bosland, P. W (2017). "Sensory properties of chili pepper heat - and its importance to food quality and cultural preference". Appetite. 117: 186–190. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2017.06.026. PMID 28662907.
  5. ^ Collins MD, Wasmund LM, Bosland PW (1995). "Improved method for quantifying capsaicinoids in Capsicum using high-performance liquid chromatography". HortScience. 30 (1): 137–139. doi:10.21273/HORTSCI.30.1.137.
  6. ^ Peter, KV, ed. (2001), Handbook of Herbs and Spices, vol. 1, CRC Press, p. 120, ISBN 978-0-8493-1217-5
  7. ^ Mazourek M, Pujar A, Borovsky Y, Paran I, Mueller L, Jahn MM (2009). "A Dynamic Interface for Capsaicinoid Systems Biology" (PDF). Plant Physiology. 150 (4): 1806–1821. doi:10.1104/pp.109.136549. PMC 2719146. PMID 19553373.