80/20 Pareto Principle in Bird-Watching
Bird watchers can benefit from the knowledge of the 80-20 ratio too. How? A study revealed that 80% of all bird sightings come from 20% of the most common birds.
Tell that to NATOAlas, MAGA is necessary after every Democrat administration, especially after the current one.
Yeah, I didn't think that bird watching was the best application, but OK. By the way birdman, is it true?
There are a wide range of policy responses that could be leveled at improving the lives of the working poor, but first some significant part of the population of this country would have to agree that it's even a problem. Seems like most Americans who are not poor either don't realize or won't admit that millions of their fellow Americans have to cobble together several crappy part time jobs without benefits to make ends meet, and even then need government assistance to eke above the poverty line.
I have not idea how accurate the 80:20 ratio is, but it doesn't surprise me that observation rate is correlated with overall abundance. The Pareto Principle is not describing any sort of rule about nature or society, it is describing a pattern that is derived from some other process. So wrt to bird watching observation rates are a function of abundance of the bird, proximity to human populations, and bird behaviors. Same holds true for all the other contexts listed, Pareto was simply describing patterns that tend to happen.
What do you think is the difference between a "rule" and "patterns that tend to happen"?
the trend or pattern seems pretty persistent
nor is there much evidence that trying to change it will necessarily produce better results, especially if your original diagnosis of the causes of the problem is flawed
Dems don’t want or won’t fight for those things either though
I only read the digest of it in the NYT morning email, but the Amazon warehouse article seems to be worth a read
the high turnover rate of employees being a feature and not a bug was noteworthy to me
When you come into money as I did—young, scared, and not very savvy about the world—you are taught certain precepts as though they are gospel: Never spend the “corpus” (also known as the capital) you were left. Steward your assets to leave even more to your children, and then teach them to do the same. And finally, use every tool at your disposal within the law, especially through estate planning, to keep as much of that money as possible out of the hands of government bureaucrats who will only misuse it.
If you are raised in a deeply conservative family like my own, you are taught some extra bits of doctrine: Philanthropy is good, but too much of it is unseemly and performative. Marry people “of your own class” to save yourself from the complexity and conflict that comes with a broad gulf in income, assets, and, therefore, power. And, as one of my uncles said to me during the Reagan administration, it’s best to leave the important decision making to people who are “successful,” rather than in the pitiable hands of those who aren't.
If your comfort requires that society be structured so that a decent percentage of your fellow citizens live in a constant state of terror about whether they’ll get health care in an emergency, or whether they can keep a roof over their family’s heads, or whether they will simply have enough to eat, perhaps the problem does not rest with those people, but with you and what you think of as necessary, proper, and acceptable.
Good read. I’m convinced that one of the biggest problems in our society is that so much intergenerational wealth is hoarded by people who didn’t earn it in the first place. The relationship between hard work, skill, and wealth gets weaker and weaker.
Good read. I’m convinced that one of the biggest problems in our society is that so much intergenerational wealth is hoarded by people who didn’t earn it in the first place. The relationship between hard work, skill, and wealth gets weaker and weaker.
On the surface, this says you can't say hard work is racist or sexist. In practice, this makes it illegal to critique the Protestant work ethic or how societal definitions of "hard work" are racialized and gendered.