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A comment on Rise of the Creative Class Worked a Little Too Well.

Re:Rise of the Creative Class Worked a Little Too Well by dougbright on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:04PM (#15570775)
The author raises good points which are hard to disagree with. I'm troubled by the decision to choose the odd and seemingly arbitrary "95-20 ratio" though, instead of a more typical 80-20.

Does anybody know what these graphs look like at 80-20?

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Re:Rise of the Creative Class Worked a Little Too Well by s17n on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:29PM (#15570979)
Wouldn't gini be better than either of those?
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Re:Rise of the Creative Class Worked a Little Too Well by arcanus on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:50PM (#15571127)
Or a straight up power-law curve fit, which is what those are both (implicitly) based upon.
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Re:Rise of the Creative Class Worked a Little Too Well by s17n on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:59PM (#15598129)
Really? I thought that Gini is equally applicable to any type of underlying curve.
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