[stonecraftwolf]

Isnt that also just not how the Pareto principle works? Doesn’t it say that 20% of inputs (people accused of fraud) are responsible for 80% of outputs (cases of fraud)?

So this is actually exactly backwards. On top of being frighteningly amoral, I mean.

[kgin]

Yeah if that's really what they're doing, they've misunderstood the pareto principle pretty much on every level, from what it is to how someone might attempt to apply it.

[leto_ii]

I checked the original article, it doesn't explicitly refer to the Pareto principle, it just calls it the 80/20 rule. Normally by this it's understood that you should be referring to the Pareto principle, but it seems they've invented another 80/20 rule (that makes no sense and is not related to Pareto).