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Mooers' law

Posted by Shawn Callahan - 30/08/07
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I was reading Ambient Findability this morning at breakfast and found this law posited by Calvin Mooers in 1959.

An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it.

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