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zomgbbq on April 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Richest Rich Are in a Class by Themselves

Is it more accurate to describe wealth ranges as standard deviations from the mean rather than a linear percentage?

applecore on April 6, 2014 | [–]

Not really. Wealth is more accurately described by a power-law distribution.

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