The "Dixit Dominus" went undiscovered until recently, explains Michael Talbot, perhaps the ultimate Vivaldi authority, in booklet notes, because it had been misattributed by a shady Venetian copyist and merchant (a priest, like Vivaldi, but no matter) in the mid-18th century to the trendier and more advanced Baldassare Galuppi.
One form of stigma is called diagnostic over-shadowing, a process by which physical symptoms are misattributed to mental illness [ 47].
Fakes and forgeries as well as objects that are misattributed (for instance, a "Rembrandt" painting that was actually created by the "School of Rembrandt" or a "Follower of Rembrandt") must be taken back by the dealer, if the sale were based on the items being authentic, for the money paid for them.
"It's stunning the number of instances when selectors are misattributed to certain people.
This may be an important covariate to include in future studies, as malaria deaths are often misattributed to pneumonia or diarrhea, or pneumonia and diarrheal deaths are misattributed to malaria [ 27, 28].
Furthermore, adverse event reports are often assigned to the product class or are misattributed to the originator brand [ 7, 25].
William Baker, of Northern Illinois University, who edits the journal George Eliot George Henry Lewes Studies, told me he believed that the quotation had been misattributed to Eliot by a greeting-card company, and had subsequently been disseminated into popular culture.
The novel "Arabesques" was misattributed; it was written not by Habibi but by Anton Shammas, also an Israeli Arab, in Hebrew, not Arabic.
So it's entirely possible that a number of accidental shootings of adults by young children have been misattributed, skewing our sense of the risk of such deaths or injuries.
