Daily Archives: September 20, 2009

Dog Behavior and “Intelligence”

Though TIME completely misrepresents the article with the title of this piece the article is quite nice.  Most of the findings are quite straightforward and the utility of the article is that it does a nice job of illustrating how … Continue reading

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The Tale of The Long Tail – Anderson wasn’t all that right

Having myself dug through at least 30 companies traffic and sales data over the last decade I agree with these Wharton researchers. The Wharton researchers also disagree with Anderson’s theory and its implicit challenge to the Pareto principle, or so-called … Continue reading

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