The 90-9-1 rule
https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1398825880349298689
The tweet reads, "The 90-9-1 rule is a rule of thumb for internet communities: 90% of people lurk, 9% contribute a little, 1% do most of the work. It is true on Reddit, where 25% of the most popular subreddits are administered by four people; on Wikipedia (77% is written by 1% of users!) & others."
I had never heard of the 90-9-1 rule before but found it interesting since it seems to apply to mgoblog as well. Seth has mentioned a few times here that the front page gets way more traffic than the board and some people find that hard to believe. I'm not sure if he was aware of this rule or just knew from looking at the data himself, but it's funny that it roughly applies to basically any internet community.
Just logged on to comment so that I (for the only time in my life) am part of the 1%.
Pretty sure that just puts you in 9. I speak from experience. I’ve never contributed anything of value, more than an occasional gif. I’m more in the 90 these days, for whatever reason. And it seems we got rid of a few of the 1
But you'll need to post a lot more to get into the truly elite Bezos-level 0.1%.
Nah, JB is 0.00000001%.
Yes, Bezos is the wealthiest of 8 billion people. Unless Vlad Putin has even more stashed away.
Hotel Putingrad...what say you?
I suspect that if Putin wanted to claim that title from Bezos (or Musk - whichever it is today) all he'd have to do is call in the chits he has as the defacto owner of Russia. He would instantly own every industry in that entire country and its satellites. The man ran the KGB and just set himself up as president for life via Politburo 'vote'.
I don't care how much money Bezos or Musk have, they have nothing compared to the power that Putin can muster.
I suppose it's just me, but I state for the record that Vladdie looks like a skinnier, crazier Mel Brooks. How can you stay mad at Mel Brooks?
Its great to be King.
Or Tsar.
When you have the most money and the biggest nuclear arsenal, you don't have much to worry about.
Except someone poisoning your food.
Looks like Pareto wasn't right after all...
But he sure was efficient in equilibrium ?
I wish someone would break down how many front page articles each writer generates, just curious.
That gives me an idea...
The 80-20 rule ~
In sales, 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers.
Also, 20% of your sales force accounts for 80% of your business.
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I've heard 80/20 used a lot in manufacturing as something akin to "close enough". Like 80% of the gain takes 20% of the effort, and the last 20% of the gain is going to take 80% of the effort. So when something is "close enough" we just say "eh, 80/20. Onto the next problem"
I thought the most common use of the rule was that 80% of a company's revenues come from 20% of its products.
Depends on the context and it can be (and is) applied to a whole host of different business scenarios, whether it be sales, manufacturing, process design, etc.
Same maxim in any sales/brokerage business, 20 percent of your salespeople make 80 percent of the commissions. In every business I ever looked at, that was chronically the case.
And 20% of your clients will represent 80% of your receivables.
Also, 1% of your customers will consume 90% of your support resources. Incidentally, they’re usually not the profitable ones.
That's usually the way I always saw it when I was an officer in the Air Force as well, 10% of my folks caused 90% of my headaches.
I don't run across it as much in consulting, but man there were days in the Air Force I fantasized about pressing a button to eject that 10% from the service.
The 80/20 rule gets used all the time in churches.
20% of people do 80% of the work or in many cases 20% of people do the work while 80% just attend.
Square root of number of people do half the work.
4 person partnership, 2 do half the work
400 person organization, 20 people do half the work.
It was 89-8-3 on this site until WD was banned
Seems to me the community hasn't missed a beat on field hockey, wrestling, softball, gymnastics, etc., posts without WD here.
Consumption patterns are interesting. It's like alcohol use. My numbers might be a little off but I believe 10% of people are responsible for 60% of sales/consumption. 30% of people don't drink at all.
"According to an analysis in The Washington Post some years back, to break into the top 10 percent of American drinkers, you needed to drink more than two bottles of wine every night. People in the next decile consumed, on average, 15 drinks a week, and in the one below that, six drinks a week."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/america-drinking-alone-problem/619017/
2 bottles every night. Jesus. I have a friend who is probably close to that on average actually. She has insomnia. Insomniacs often have drinking problems since it helps them shut down their brains enough to sleep.
Does not work for me. I fall asleep and then I wake up wired.
IIRC, alcohol may help you fall asleep but the quality of the sleep is diminished. Too lazy to google and I'm not an MD. So feel free to tell me I'm full of shit. Weed uber alles.
Too lazy, or is it the weed?
/s
True, also true of benzodiazepines and barbiturates.
If I combine a couple of glasses of wine with some pasta, I'm out like a light by 9:30 and will sleep soundly all night. If I drink enough water, no headache in the morning, either.
Weed will fuck up my sleep and I've never once awakened in the morning after getting high where I haven't had brain fog and general mental lassitude. Which is why I stopped getting high before I was 30.
That said, I cannot imagine drinking two bottles of wine by myself in a week, let alone in one night. That's serious self-harm to your liver.
I had to look up the meaning of lassitude. Glad I had the energy to look it up.
Interesting. I used to be a sound sleeper but now I'm much more sensitive to things. Alcohol definitely hurts my quality of sleep. Weed is fine. Doesn't really help or hurt. But I know some people who have had sleep problems and smoke sometimes to help sleep. My mom takes a Cbd gummy and she's out.
I'm the outlier in my reaction to pot. The vast majority of people I've known in the last 50 years who get high have said it mellows them out mentally and physically.
All it's ever done to me is make me very uncomfortable and weird in the head, which ain't relaxing in the slightest. I've been told there are strains now that are guaranteed to mellow me out, but I'm skeptical. I'd much rather have a snort of scotch anyhow.
Depends if you pop a half of Xanax with a glass or two of wine. My REM sleep is at least 10 hours at that point. Weed does nothing for me in terms of falling and staying asleep.
No it's definitely true. The problem with alcohol is it suppresses REM sleep, which you also need. Initial sleep is when your brain is as close to shutting down as it ever gets. Alcohol helps you get there. The idea of the pink elephant and the condition of delirium tremens comes from REM deficits. Your body needs it. So if you don't get it, it'll burst through even in waking consciousness. But that takes absurd levels of alcohol.
Every drug that induces sleep causes altered sleep architecture. Namely, the sedatives/hypnotics and alcohol interrupt or skip completely the REM stage of sleep cycles. If you drink every night for a week or more, the night you stop you’ll notice an intense wave of livid dreams. This is due to the brain ‘catching up’ on missed REM sleep during the heavy drug/alcohol use.
And then wakes them up 3 hours later. Alcohol causes way more insomnia than it cures.
Not sure that's true if you actually have insomnia, as opposed to calling generally poor sleep 'insomnia'. There wouldn't be the 3 hours of sleep in the first place a lot of times without it. She says she usually sleeps like 2, 3, or 4 hours a night for a few days, and then she'll sleep for like 12 hours. She's gone without drinking too. That doesn't improve things.
Two fucking bottles of wine per night.
That's as disturbing as it is incredible.
I've certainly done it.
But, oh god, EVERY night, jeeeeeeeesh. It sounds exhausting.
I've done it before, too, but only like once or twice. Some people don't drink that much water in a day, much less alcohol.
I am at the same time shocked and not surprised at all by this. That is some serious alcohol abuse going on. As I’ve aged, I can hardly drink more than 1-2 alcoholic beverages without struggling to sleep or have gut issues the next day.
And it is staggering (and sad) how much some alcoholics drink, like 1+L of vodka per day.
I went through a 1.75L bottle of Vodka last year during the worst of the pandemic and felt like I needed to slow it down. Of course, the vodka was mixed with other stuff......
15 drinks a week? On Average? Throughout the year? Jesus that's a lot. I think I get to 15 on vacation and then I can't even look at alcohol for a couple of weeks once I get back. I can't imagine maintaining that pace.
I rarely post, been on site in one form or another since 2007. Posting is too risky, you say anything that somebody doesn't like, boom downvotes...I have very few points as you end up in Bolivia for not having the popular opinion. Hmmm, so I lurk. I occasionally see something of interest but honestly I have lost my love of sports almost entirely.