Interesting Science

Question 1

Guerrilla Research

Answer 1

Fast, cheap, enough data to make informed strategic decisions, does not require permission, transmission via blog

Example - Zukeberg and Facebook

Question 2

Dunbar’s Number

Answer 2

Robin Dunbar posits that 150 is a realistic number of followers, larger than that is unrealistic with respect to time, ability to stay engaged and input any emotion.

You get the optimum ripples on the web pond with this number.

Question 3

Pareto’s Principle

Answer 3

80-20 rule on everything though the Internet/web 2 may flatten this into a long tail due to easy transmission of niche interest.

The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of the causes (the “vital few”).[1] Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity.[2][3] e.g. 80% of land in Italy owned by 20% of the people