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MENTAL MODEL · M0144

Sturgeon's Law

Sturgeon's Law
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

In any field, 90% of everything is crud.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Reduce cognitive load

Maintain critical composure. When you see a large amount of inferior work in a new field (such as Web3, AI-generated content, contemporary art), do not dismiss the entire field because of it. According to this law, it is normal. Your task is to sift through the 90% noise to find the 10% gems.

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Anchor fast decisions

Given sample size n, the number of histogram bins k ≈ 1 + log2(n), providing an empirical number of bins. It is a heuristic for statistical plotting.

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