English Explanatory Dictionary

Mooers's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  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.

Word forms

Mooers's law

Etymology

Introduced by American computer scientist Calvin Mooers in 1959.

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