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Named after the Baskerville family from Arthur Conan Doyle's crime novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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Baskerville effect
Today it means: The alleged self-fulfilling prophecy that there is an increase in rate of mortality through heart attacks on days considered unlucky because of the psychological stress this causes on superstitious people. Full definition →