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Lotka's law

Lotka's Law is a way of exploring how many successful people or things you can find in a certain field. It basically states that the top performers in a given field will make up a small percentage of the total number of people or things in that field. For example, if there are 1000 people in a field, Lotka's Law says that only 10 of those people will be the top performers.
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