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But that merely moves the question on. Why are garbage tutorials more popular than good quality tutorials?
by ChrisSD 8y ago
But that merely moves the question on. Why are garbage tutorials more popular than good quality tutorials?
- joelthelion 8y agoProbably because people who look for tutorials are not experts, so it's hard for them to tell if a tutorial is good or not.
- noxToken 8y agoBecause a garbage tutorial isn't necessarily incorrect. The solution in the tutorial might be slow, inefficient, un-optimized, hacky, etc., but if it works when people have been slamming their head on the desk for hours, people will use it. It's a matter of which tutorial captured the audience first.
- projectramo 8y agoI think it is just numbers. There are many more poor quality tutorials written than high quality tutorials because high quality tutorials are much harder to write. The writer has to know the domain, be up-to-date in the domain, have the communication skills and the time to write and edit.
- KineticLensman 8y agoBecause people find them using search engines optimised for popularity (not quality) of content, as perceived by the readers, not a community of experts.
- thanatropism 8y agoI can speak for "data science" tutorials: there's A LOT of people saying you don't actually need to know the math! Learning math makes you feel stupid.