The numbers in the article look very much like a power-law distribution. Power-law distributions are often the result of self-organizing phenomena, so it might be that Harvard actually doesn’t do anything special or explicit compared to other elite universities. It’s probably just the result of an initial lead coupled with a network or snowball effect.
The numbers in the article look very much like a power-law distribution. Power-law distributions are often the result of self-organizing phenomena, so it might be that Harvard actually doesn’t do anything special or explicit compared to other elite universities. It’s probably just the result of an initial lead coupled with a network or snowball effect.