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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5385 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 9 of 12 09 April 2010 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pareto's law would dictate that 20% of those hours account for 80% of the progress made.
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| vb Octoglot Senior Member Afghanistan Joined 6426 days ago 112 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English, Romanian, French, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Swedish | Message 10 of 12 09 April 2010 at 7:28pm | IP Logged | ||
This would mean that a minute within the magic 20% would be 16 times more effective than one from the other 80%. Blimey. Does it have a fractal quality to it: in other words, would 20% of the magic 20% itself be 16 times more effective than the other 80%? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5385 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 11 of 12 09 April 2010 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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The equation certainly works with word frequency.
I took a sample of 35000 words, containing 5700 different words. The most frequent 20% of words equalled roughly 80% of the total word count. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vb Octoglot Senior Member Afghanistan Joined 6426 days ago 112 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English, Romanian, French, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Russian, Swedish | Message 12 of 12 10 April 2010 at 8:23am | IP Logged | ||
Zipf's law is along the same lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law 1 person has voted this message useful |
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