Yeah I’m pretty sure this was about pottery.
If you make the same pot 100 times that 100th pot is your best one.
If you make the same pot 100 times that 100th pot is your best one.
I'd love to know if either are real and verifiable.
The lesson is most likely real and applicable either way.
The photo story isn't the whole story.
Did the students know that the professor would also choose which were the best photos ?
The "quality" group were only required to produce one photo, but were they allowed to produce 100 photos?
If so, did the professor include all those photos when they chose which were the best photos ?
If not, did the professor look at a much larger sample of photos from the "quantity" group than the "quality" group to decide which were the best photos?
But I think this type of principle has been relayed through many forms. Even Bruce Lee has the famous quote “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”