Re: Electric pulse attenuation

William R. Frensley <frensley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The most surprising occurrence of a dB scale was found when a
colleague and I attempted to estimate the salary scale at the company
for which we worked. The annual stockholder's meeting report gave us
enough information to estimate the salary of the Vice President at the
top of our reporting chain, and a simple calculation gave us a factor of
about 1.25 per level of management.

In general the income distributions are often
to a good approximation lognormal.
(The logarithms of the incomes are distributed normally)
At the high end this reduces to a power law distribution.
(Known since the 19th century as Pareto's law)
The Pareto exponent is a measure of the inequality
of the distribution.

Best,

Jan

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