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This is closer to 90:25 rather than the typical Pareto of 80:20

• H8crilA 7y ago
  80:20 is a pop-culture take on the distribution. It does a good job of visualising it to someone who doesn't know maths. It's really any distribution with the CDF of the form x^(-a)
  • sova 7y ago
    The wikipedia article says it's commonly formulated as 80:20, so that's where I'm getting my info. You're saying it covers every nice Pareto ratio, which is very different. Because 90:25 is much better than 80:20 but they are part of the same phenomenon. Well, you can call everything a Pareto phenomenon then and what's the point if everything fits in this universalish category? How can I explain the value of 90:25 without invoking Pareto and having it constantly diluted to 80:20?