Frank Hecker
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Frank Hecker
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papers.ssrn.comMaybe related to a hypothesized increase in inequality in creator economy platforms as the amount of money flowing through such platforms increases.
Compare to Michael Nielsen’s recent essay.
What are some good sources of comprehensive data on possibly log-normal behavior in culture and entertainment? Maybe box-office figures?
That one weird third variable problem nobody ever mentions: Conditioning on a collider
the100.ci
Many (most? almost all?) results (as ranked by some metric) are produced through a sequence of events whose effects multiply together. The log-normal distribution is the real “normal” distribution.
The creator economy and Log-normal is the new normal
This is my new obsession, which started with my analysis of Patreon earnings.
The 80/20 Guide to R You Wish You Read Years Ago
open.substack.com
Good general advice on using R productively.
The log-normal distribution strikes again, the time for times to task completion.
Imagine spending years in an apartment, making it your home. You pay rent on time, maintain the space beautifully, and build a community with your neighbors. Then one day, without warning or input from tenants, the building is sold to a new owner; a corporate holding company who begins raising the rent and changing the rules.
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Austin Robey • No Platform Landlords
Good overview of creator economy dynamics marred by uncritical acceptance of power-law distributions that are probably log-normal.
File under “probably log-normal”. See for example the deviation from straight log-lines in the graphs.