According to legend, he was a 17th-century owner of a rent-a-horse business, whose stable contained  both fast and not-so-fast horses.
According to legend, he was a 17th-century owner of a rent-a-horse business, whose stable contained  both fast and not-so-fast horses. When allowed to pick, his customers always took the fast ones, and for  some reason, this greatly bothered him. So he instituted a new system of assigning horses, under which  each customer would have exactly two choices: he could take the horse nearest the wall, or he could take  no horse at all. FTP, name this man who thus lent his name to a type of choice that is not really a choice  at all.
According to legend, he was a 17th-century owner of a rent-a-horse business, whose stable contained  both fast and not-so-fast horses.
Thomas Hobson