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- noun the principle that describes the
phenomenon wherein a smallpercentage of apopulation accounts for a largeproportion of aparticular characteristic of that population e.g. that a small proportion of users account for a large proportion of the edits to a Wiki
Etymologies
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from Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist
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