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I didn't know this was a "law", but i've been triangulating on this same feeling for a long time now. I would say it's 1%-10% of anything is actually good. Yo
by erik_landerholm 6y ago
I didn't know this was a "law", but i've been triangulating on this same feeling for a long time now. I would say it's 1%-10% of anything is actually good. You can basically apply this to almost any category, but for most things it doesn't really matter. I would guess while no two people would agree if asked to pick their top 5% of any one thing, if you tallied up all the votes and had enough participation, you could probably put together a list that would generally include the best of whatever that category is.
- aidenn0 6y agoThe story behind it is interesting; critics complained about the low-quality of typical sci-fi. Sturgeon observed that 90% of novels in any genre (or pieces of art in general) are garbage, so the observation that "90% of sci-fi is crap" does not speak to the quality of sci-fi as a genre.