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 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.

See also

• List of eponymously named medical signs