![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In that case, the last 20% might be worth 80% of the value, via some clearly Satanic reverse Pareto principle. Or maybe we live in a world where the more you know about dating, the more valuable the next piece you learn becomes - since you have more context or something. Maybe we actually live in some bizarre world where there’s a 1:1 correspondence between the value you get out of dating advice and the amount you read, such that 80% of the advice gives 80% of the value. So, okay, right, now you know what the Pareto principle is all about, which brings me to my main motivation for writing this, which is: what’s a cool empirical example of the Pareto principle in action? The dating example is okay, but it’s also more-or-less fabricated from whatever imagination is made out of.Įmpirical is perhaps the wrong word. (In fact, I think you could model relationships satisfactorily via Markov processes, but that’s a separate post.) Real Examples of the Pareto Principle In fact, I’m pretty confident that all dating wisdom can be boiled down to six words: approach more of the opposite sex, or maybe just two: approach more. When it comes to dating, considering the Pareto principle, we should expect that 80% of the value of all dating advice, techniques, etc. (Relevant given the continued popularity of my earlier post on prolonged eye contact.) I suspect the Pareto principle obeys the Pareto principle - that is, you can get 80% cognitive value out of 20% of concepts, and the Pareto principle is one of those 20%. Oh, and, by the way, if this is the first time you’ve been exposed to this concept, the amount of value you’ll get out of having it in your cognitive toolkit is, well, to quote the Beastie Boys, “it’s wack,” yo. Or more broadly, it’s the principle of the “vital few and trivial many.” A few things make most of the difference. The main idea behind the Pareto principle, sometimes called the 80-20 rule, is that 80% of the effect of something comes from 20% of the cause. In the book that I’ve been writing on keeping up in the information age ( subscribe via email to receive a copy when it’s finished), I’ve touched on both Sturgeon’s Law (“90% of everything is crap”) and the Pareto principle, as part of a section on filtering information. Pareto Principle Examples and History Mon, Jun 30, 2014Įconomics consists of theoretical laws which nobody has verified and of empirical laws which nobody can explain.įor a very long time, the Pareto law has lumbered the economic scene like an erratic block on the landscape an empirical law which nobody can explain. ![]()
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