## [Gwern: Feynman’s Maze-Running Story](https://gwern.net/maze) Gwern gets a lucky break tracking down the source of a Feynman anecdote. > A 1974 Richard [Feynman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman) speech recounts an anec⁣dote about a sci⁣en⁣tist, Mr Young, who in 1937 dis⁣cov⁣ered se⁣ri⁣ous flaws in rat maze-running psychol⁣ogy re⁣search [...] Who was Mr Young and what was his research which was ig⁣nored by main⁣stream psy⁣chol⁣ogy? This ques⁣tion has often been asked, par⁣tic⁣u⁣larly by my⁣self for over a decade, and mys⁣te⁣ri⁣ously, never an⁣swered. [...] Here we finally an⁣swer it: Mr Young was prob⁣a⁣bly Quin Fis⁣cher Cur⁣tis