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> "..a quarter of all universities account for 71 to 86 percent of all tenure-track faculty.." I find it funny when people are continually "surprised" by the a
by MicroBerto 12y ago
> "..a quarter of all universities account for 71 to 86 percent of all tenure-track faculty.."
I find it funny when people are continually "surprised" by the appearance of the Pareto Principle.
It is everywhere (everywhere!), and that is why you should never stop fighting to become the top 10% of anything you do (that you care about).
- tzs 12y agoMore generally, if you distribute anything across a population in any manner other than everyone getting exactly the same amount, then it is mathematically necessary that the top N% have more than N% of the thing for any N < 100. Most articles I've seen on any kind of inequity in distribution don't seem to take this into account, and so don't try to establish what the baseline fair distribution should be, making most of their subsequent analysis worthless.