List of eponymous tests

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

Letter Test Name Description
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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