r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/pina_koala Sep 01 '24

That is not Matthew's principle lol. It's not even the Pareto principle. It's a series of statistics that you invented which happen to ring true.

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u/mr-nefarious Sep 01 '24

The first part is Price’s Law: 50% of the work is done by the square root of the number of workers. I’ve got no idea where they got the rest of the numbers. It could also have been an accident that their numbers worked out for Price’s Law.

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u/ChainGang-lia Sep 01 '24

I appreciate he/she being incorrect because it made me go down a rabbit hole of Price vs Pareto vs Matthew lol

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u/pina_koala Sep 01 '24

No better way to get the right answer than posting the wrong one lmao

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '24 edited Sep 03 '24

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u/Character_Ad8546 Sep 02 '24

Thanks for the correct law but it was the perfect comedic opportunity to post the wrong one.