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minus-squareCount Regal Inkwell@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 day agoNow that everyone who was old enough to give a shit in 1981 is pushing 60, can we all agree that, like, disco was pretty good actually? Some genuine bangers in there. Not at all deserving of the backlash it got.
minus-squareJmdatcs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 day agoThat’s the thing, 45 years later you only ever hear the bangers, not the other 99.9%. Is there a term for that? It’s not survivorship bias exactly, although I guess you could stretch the definition.
minus-squareCount Regal Inkwell@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 day agoSturgeon’s Law Derived from a sci-fi writer who was told sci-fi wasn’t respected as “real literature” because “90% of sci-fi was shit”, to which he supposedly responded: “Well, 90% of everything is shit”
minus-squareMummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoIt is survivor bias. The good disco is like the planes that got hit in the wings. It gives a skewed picture of the whole
Now that everyone who was old enough to give a shit in 1981 is pushing 60, can we all agree that, like, disco was pretty good actually?
Some genuine bangers in there. Not at all deserving of the backlash it got.
That’s the thing, 45 years later you only ever hear the bangers, not the other 99.9%.
Is there a term for that? It’s not survivorship bias exactly, although I guess you could stretch the definition.
Sturgeon’s Law
Derived from a sci-fi writer who was told sci-fi wasn’t respected as “real literature” because “90% of sci-fi was shit”, to which he supposedly responded:
“Well, 90% of everything is shit”
It is survivor bias. The good disco is like the planes that got hit in the wings. It gives a skewed picture of the whole