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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
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