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Just want to point out the comment by "vkrm20" at the bottom of the post. It's very simple. 20% entails a percentage of what you put in. This guy missed such a simple fact.

One should not arbitrarily assign percentages to other arbitrary percentages. What makes it possible for me to say I expended 20% of my effort writing an essay? And if i did that then the 80/20 rule as I see it, would apply relative to that 20%, not the arbitrary 100% of my "possible efforts".

Scope, Scope, scope.



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