Benford's law of controversy

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For the statistics law, see Benford's law.

Benford's law of controversy, as established by science-fiction author Gregory Benford in 1980, states:

"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available." (quoted on the [Electronic Frontier Foundation website] (2001) with attribution)

See also

• Godwin's Law
• Wilcox-McCandlish law of online discourse evolution
• Cognitive dissonance

External links

• http://www.sysprog.net/quotlaws.html
• http://www.eff.org/Misc/EFF/?f=quotes.eff.txt
• http://groups.google.ca/group/aus.jokes/msg/5f57b32b033497c5

 

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