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{{quote|''90% of everything is crud.''}}
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* Corollary 1: ''The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.''
* Corollary 2: ''The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.'' (Note: It is clear this doesn't ''necessarily'' follow from the Revelation- sci fi has minor advantages and disadvantages compared to other genres, and differing amounts of literature compared to other genres. If a thousand write sci fi, but a hundred thousand write real world, do the maths.)
* Crawford's Corollary: ''Should you ever find that less than 90% seem to be crap, your standard is set too low and should be adjusted.''
* Critic's Corollary: ''90% of people lack the taste necessary to distinguish between crud and non-crud.''
** Critic's Second Corollary: ''90% of people will criticize 90% of what they see regardless of their ability to distinguish crud from non-crud.''
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* [[The Theorem of Narrow Interests]]: ''The more constrained the thing you're looking for, the fewer good examples exist.''
** Also: ''If a video game has user-created content, a large amount of it will be based on [[Video Game Perversity Potential|male or female genitalia]] or "[[
* [[Martian Successor Nadesico
* [[w:Isaac Bonewits|Bonewits]]' Law: ''"[W]hen it comes to stuff written about magic, 99.9% of everything is crap."'' (From his book ''Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Magic'').
Sturgeon's Law is particularly obvious when the barriers to
If we assume that the 90% figure applies only to published works, then about [[Million-to-One Chance|one in a million of all things out there]] is not crud. Most people, though, have seen more than one non-cruddy thing in their lifetime.
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There is a related principle actually observed in economics, the Pareto Principle or "80-20 rule": 80% of the work is done by 20% of the group. This makes sense if you think about it: in a given group there will be, for whatever reason, variation in the capability of its constituent individuals, and by and large, variation tends to take the form of a bell-curve distribution: the vast majority are average or near-average, with occurrence correlating to rarity. So, if you take that curve (representing the number of individuals at each level of performance) and multiply by said level of performance, you get a plot showing how the total amount of work done is distributed among the various levels of performance, which will obviously be skewing towards the higher-performance end. The rule is an approximation and the exact ratio will vary with the situation, but the general principle is very widespread in situations involving normal and power law distributions. The principal is also used in Statistical Process Control, a mathematical approach to quality control, stating that generally, 80% of total defects are caused by 20% of known failure modes.
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See also [[Sturgeon's Tropes]]
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