## [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 anecdote about a scientist, Mr Young, who in 1937 discovered serious flaws in rat maze-running psychology research [...] Who was Mr Young and what was his research which was ignored by mainstream psychology? This question has often been asked, particularly by myself for over a decade, and mysteriously, never answered. [...] Here we finally answer it: Mr Young was probably Quin Fischer Curtis