[Ads-l] quote magnets; conjecture magnets; the Matthew effect

[Stephen Goranson]

These three recently popped up. If interested:

Text criticism conjecture magnets, verses in New Testament
scholarship--verses often attracting conjectural text emendation--were
discussed and commented on, here:
https://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2026/02/conjecture-magnets-ranked.html#comments

"The Science of Blunders" here
https://languagehat.com/the-science-of-blunders/
with "the Matthew effect" noted in comments

and a lively and learned essay, "The Science of Blunders: Confessions of a
Textual Critic" by James Willis reprinted here
https://antigonejournal.com/2026/02/science-of-blunders-confessions-textual-critic/

sg

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