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Disco comeback (lemmy.world)
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[–] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    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"

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