I hope someone can help me find a blog post or webpage that I’ve seen before but can’t find: it’s someone describing a power law of scientists. There’s a top level who have drastically more output than the level below, who are drastically more productive than the level below that. There’s only a few at the top level, and a few hundred at level 2, and a few thousand at level 3. I think he mentions one scientist being level 0.5 - notably more productive than almost anyone else. It was on a relatively unstyled website, maybe Scott Aaronson’s.
I hope someone can help me find a blog post or webpage that I’ve seen before but can’t find: it’s someone describing a power law of scientists. There’s a top level who have drastically more output than the level below, who are drastically more productive than the level below that. There’s only a few at the top level, and a few hundred at level 2, and a few thousand at level 3. I think he mentions one scientist being level 0.5 - notably more productive than almost anyone else. It was on a relatively unstyled website, maybe Scott Aaronson’s.
Anyone familiar with that?
Landau’s List.
Thank you!
and a blogpost on hiring those “star players”, and the outlooks for the rest...
STEM: Still No Shortage On a myth that just won’t die
https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505c1#.d8prbrkvk