>>>>Yeah, I mostly work in Oracle, pl/SQL etc. So I was looking for some VFP SQL syntax for one of my Oracle queries that was failing. Before hitting "submit" on my question on the UT, I saw my error. Funny how just writing out your problem helps you find the answer.
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>>>Auntie Emma.
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>>I think there's an official name for that phenomenon/principle. ISTR it having something to do with a doll, maybe something like the "Raggedy Ann Principle" but I don't think that's quite right.
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>That'd be the psychiatrists who named it? They really don't know anything else, just notice things happening among the people, giving names to them, and eventually voting to have some of them listed as diseases, so they can sell expensive drugs against those, legally.
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>At least Emma is a real person, perhaps still alive. I saw her only a couple of times - the place where it happened was our fiercest competition, so we couldn't just get in and talk with staff. The story came from one of the few guys there, who later came to work with us.

No, by "official" I meant something like "Murphy's Law", or some sort of Internet meme.

Definitely not named by any psychoscientist.