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I think most of these eponymous laws sound good, but don't pan out in the real world. In my experience, only about one in 10 seems to hold true.
by karaterobot 3y ago
I think most of these eponymous laws sound good, but don't pan out in the real world. In my experience, only about one in 10 seems to hold true.
- mo_42 3y agoAs stated by the law. 90% of everything, including such laws, is crap.
- happytiger 3y agoCan’t tell if driest sense of humor ever or worlds most literal person.
- foolswisdom 3y agoLooks like humor to me.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- VoodooJuJu 3y agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/thatsthejoke/ https://old.reddit.com/r/thatsthejoke/
- satvikpendem 3y agoThat's the joke. You just restated the joke.
- 6510 3y agoI'm posting a comment here so that the odds for better comments elsewhere may improve. I'm the creator of the 1000 skeptics theorem: You take infinite skeptics, give them all typewriters, poof! All the great works debunked.
- tomjakubowski 3y agowow, it even works on Hacker News comments!
- derbOac 3y agoI get the humor, but I do feel as if there's some converse to Sturgeon's Law in certain areas, in that for some things, 90% of everything is more than sufficient for most people or situations. Athletics is maybe a good example. A bunch of caveats aside, most products being marketed to the broadest markets will more than suffice, and expensive alternatives have only marginal actual utility for a miniscule subset of those markets. There have been studies showing, for example, that the actual gains for use of super running shoes are very small in absolute terms, and generally only apply to elite runners; typical runners, even good but not elite runners, may not see any gains, and may even lose time from them. What gains they might have are not going to make a difference to their times in the grand scheme of things. I think similar arguments could be made for a lot of cycling products etc. Maybe they're different issues but sometimes I feel like Sturgeon's Law applies well, and sometimes the opposite is true.
- karmakaze 3y agoWhen I'm buying something in a new category that I don't know much about, I'll go and buy something that's above the bottom tier. Often that's good enough for me, and other times I'll learn there's something lacking and find one that satisfies that. In certain areas I'll simply splurge because I can justify it from the amount of use or value it adds to my enjoyment (audio gear) or work.
- CrzyLngPwd 3y agoI see what you did there :-p