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Yes.
by RealityVoid 5y ago
Yes.
- giantg2 5y agoThis feels like a gross over exaggeration.
- cjbgkagh 5y agoSturgeon's Law, 90% of everything is shit
- giantg2 5y agoIsn't that law basically saying that absolutes aren't 100% accurate?
- thaumasiotes 5y agoNo. It's saying exactly what it sounds like, that most of everything is at a very low level of quality. Historically, it was a response to the argument that science fiction was a genre that didn't deserve to have any attention paid to it, because look how awful some science fiction books were. Sturgeon's response was that most science fiction books were terrible for the same reason that most work in every other genre, past, present, or future, is terrible.
- giantg2 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
- thaumasiotes 5y agoDid you read your link? > Sturgeon's law (or Sturgeon's revelation) is an adage stating "ninety percent of everything is crap." > Sturgeon deemed Sturgeon's law to mean "nothing is always absolutely so" in the story "The Claustrophile" in a 1956 issue of Galaxy. The second adage, variously rendered as "ninety percent of everything is crud" or "ninety percent of everything is crap", was known as "Sturgeon's Revelation", formulated as such in his book review column for Venture in 1957. However, almost all modern uses of the term Sturgeon's law refer to the second, including the definition listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.
- giantg2 5y agoYep. "Sturgeon deemed Sturgeon's law to mean "nothing is always absolutely so" in the story "The Claustrophile" in a 1956 issue of Galaxy. The second adage, variously rendered as "ninety percent of everything is crud" or "ninety percent of everything is crap", was known as "Sturgeon's Revelation"," Not to mention, it's not a scientific law, but just an adage. Even then, when there's a higher barrier to entry the law is thought not to apply (such as technical skills required to create professional software).