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> "if you look at Academia you will clearly see that the best and most productive researchers are the one that work nonstop." Price's Law[1]: "Derek de Solla P
by jodrellblank 3y ago
> "if you look at Academia you will clearly see that the best and most productive researchers are the one that work nonstop."
Price's Law[1]: "Derek de Solla Price, a British physicist, historian of science, and information scientist, discovered something about his peers in academia. He noticed that there were always a handful of people who dominated the publications within a subject. Price recognized a pattern which was later named after him.
50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work.
Only a handful of people produce half of the results in any given field or company. You may have observed this phenomena throughout your experiences in life. You are working on a team, and there are the superstars who do most of the work or seem to produce most of the outcomes and then there is everyone else."
[1] https://expressingthegeniuswithin.com/prices-law-and-how-it-applies-to-everything/ https://expressingthegeniuswithin.com/prices-law-and-how-it-...
- jiggawatts 3y agoI thought everyone knew this? It was obvious the first couple of times I had to do a group project at school.
- jodrellblank 3y agoPresumably your school project group contained many people who didn't want to be there, weren't interested in the task and had nothing important riding on the outcome. How did you conclude from that experience that academic research environments where the people chose to be there, were interested in the subject enough to make it the main work of their daily lives, relied on their income for their survival, and were not working in forced groups, would show the same pattern?