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Mooers's law

Mooers's law proper noun: the observation that an information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than not to have it.

Proper noun

Mooers's law

  1. The observation that an information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than not to have it.

Origin of Mooers's law

Introduced by American computer scientist Calvin Mooers in 1959.

Questions about Mooers's law

What does Mooers's law mean?
Mooers's law means the observation that an information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than not to have it.
What part of speech is Mooers's law?
Mooers's law is a proper noun.

Words near Mooers's law in the dictionary

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