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rhizome on Jan 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook may lose 80% of users by 2017, say Prince...

Is there a name for the phenomenon that the first entries in any contested ranking tend to be less interesting?

Sturgeon's Law, maybe.

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