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To paraphrase this cool guy named Ernesto: Its not our fault reality is marxist![che-si che-si](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/743d2906-3874-4e75-8f19-47b02c4ccde6.png)
That guy clearly never heard about the Pareto Principle.
E: fuck yeah, successfully triggered all the hexbear tankies. As fun as poking a wasp nest with a long stick. If only there was an online tankie bug spray equivalent...
I’m trying to understand what this means. I know the Pareto Principle from two contexts:
Because of the latter context, I’ve spent a fair amount of time trying to make this “principle” measurable and rigorous in a real business context and it’s just a fool’s errand. If you start out with a conclusion, it’s easy to map the 80/20 rule onto preexisting data, but trying to actually use it to create predictive models, I found it useless.