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by phyzix5761 1 day ago
Price's Law says that the square root of the total number of items or participants contributes to at least half of the results[0].

I've found this to be true in almost everything in life, including work and business.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%27s_law

2 comments

Thanks for posting that, I'd never heard of it. I thought of n(n-1)/2 and coordination issues initially but nah.
That’s the first time I have heard this one. Feels something like Pareto principle