The Pareto principle was named after him, and it was built on observations of his such as that 80 % of the land in Italy was owned by about 20 % of the population.
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The Pareto principle has also been applied to training, where roughly 20 % of the exercises and habits have 80 % of the impact and the trainee should not focus so much on a varied training.
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Similar rules are known in information science, such as the 80 / 20 rule known as the Pareto principle, that 20 percent of a group will produce 80 percent of the activity, however the activity may be defined.
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In this vein, Gibbard provides a weaker version of the minimal liberalism claim which he argues is consistent with the possibility of contracts and which is also consistent with the Pareto principle given any possible preferences of the individuals.
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As a rule of thumb, for such population distributions the majority of occurrences ( more than half, and where the Pareto principle applies, 80 % ) are accounted for by the first 20 % of items in the distribution.
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In computer science, resource consumption often follows a form of power law distribution, and the Pareto principle can be applied to resource optimization by observing that 80 % of the resources are typically used by 20 % of the operations.
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The book was a reinterpretation of the Pareto principle, extending the idea that most worthwhile results come from a small minority of effort, from a business context, where this concept was well known, to include personal life, careers and personal happiness.
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Evidently, such a high difference is determined by objective difference of potentials of the cities; it is also important to notice that, in accordance with the Pareto principle, it is not obligatory to improve all the components of qualitative appraisal of cities.
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Shirky states that since many social systems follow the Pareto principle wherein 20 % of contributors account for 80 % of contributions, traditional institutions lose out of the long tail of contributors by turning only the few that dominate the distribution into employees.
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In his 2001 essay " Strategy Letter IV : Bloatware and the 80 / 20 Myth ", Joel Spolsky argues that while 80 % of the users only use 20 % of the features ( a variant on the Pareto principle ), each one uses different features.
