Mandelbrot claims Officer’s empirical results accidentally confirmed his multifractal predictions.

Evidence

Officer happens to have observed empirically something I was predicting with the new more general model. (True, I did not publish this prediction until much later.) — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 1520

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader performativity thesis — a model predicting empirical data ‘after the fact’ yet treated as confirmation.