Improving Brain and Spirit : statistics

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Now that is interesting.
I have been told that the 80/20 rule applies to loyal customers of brandname products...
and to criminal activity.

In other words, 80% of any repeated activity is done by the same 20% of the general population.

The other 20% of the activity are one-shot or random events attributable to the other 80% of the general population.
(hope the way I worded that is understandable)

As a side note, I think I have heard somewhere that growing up reading books develops the mind differently than growing up watching television.
Not sure there is still a "control group" left in the world for studies on the effect of television versus widespread reading!

-- posted by plox