Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to...
by sokoloff on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:08AM
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They’re getting at two different things: Pareto is getting at whether the work should be done at all; Price is getting at who does the work that gets done. Both are reasonable lenses to consider.
> 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.
> What is Price’s Law?
> 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work.
https://expressingthegeniuswithin.com/prices-law-and-how-it-...
https://entreresource.com/prices-law/