Many people know a classic 80/20 rule. In fact, there are such instances everywhere in life. I have never worried that I can't buy a train ticket or a house, even though sometimes I want to cater to the public psychology. In fact, before the development of the media, train ticket events and house events will not happen. The media always tends to report bad things, because bad things lead to higher public attention, however, in fact, this is exactly the embodiment of the 80/20 principle. 80% of the people are concerned about the actual 20% bad events, but they are not concerned about the remaining 80% good events.
The Spring Festival is about to begin, and ticket purchasing problems are rising. Many people are worried about it... However, the actual result is that most people return to their hometown and do not buy a ticket or a high-price ticket. Therefore, the person who cannot buy a ticket or a high-price ticket is the client of a local event, however, people are concerned about them and are very afraid to become one of them. This is understandable, because people do not expect to win a prize every day, but every day they are very afraid that bad things will happen to themselves, and the media has captured this kind of psychology, "Never let others know what you are thinking." Although you don't know what you are, you know that you are always afraid. Therefore, the media always reports things that make you afraid, as a result, more than 20% people are growing. Buying a house is similar. Many people shout that they can't afford a house and are decorating a new house. So they look around you while reading the news online. Most people have their own houses, why does God favor all of us and do not care for you alone?
Don't worry about these things. Just do a good job. Do not worry that 80% of train tickets are in the hands of scalpers, or that house prices have risen to high prices. You must know that society has its own adjustment mechanism. The 80/20 principle is actually a bit exaggerated, the real law is the power law. The ratio of people affected by bad events is set to A, which is lower than 20%. If the threshold value of A is exceeded, the world may be messy, therefore, this value will almost never exceed. It is like drinking alcohol. Once the alcohol flow exceeds the working capacity of the liver, it will naturally lead to nausea or fainting. This will protect your organs from drinking more alcohol.
Why does power law attract most people to pay attention to minority events? Because the most understandable data is the arithmetic average rather than the weighted average, a few of the much higher extreme values will greatly change the overall arithmetic average. For example, if five people have 10000 of the richest people and none of the others, their average value is 2000. Think about the gap between 0 and 2000. Why is the power law not broken? This involves game theory, or cooperation and evasion theory. Five people had an AA dinner. If a person ordered a very expensive dish, the dish would need to be shared by everyone. If everyone thought so, the result would be a huge bill, the behavior of the person who ordered the food is to escape. However, once other people see this expensive food, they will certainly adopt a cooperative behavior of confrontation, that is, ordering cheap food, in order not to pay too much money in the end, escape and cooperate at the same time, and the bill is controlled in a reasonable and acceptable range. There are always a large number of people who adopt a wait-and-wait strategy in the congestion process to eventually lift the congestion. This is another example, which is common on the Internet, this is true for both protocol design and pre-computer behavior. In general, there is always cooperation beyond the evasion.
The law of balance makes most people mediocre, but a few elites have promoted evolution. History was created by the elites and maintained by the masses and gradually broke through until new elites emerged. This is the power of historical development. In biological evolution, genetic mutation always happens to a few individuals. In society, rich people or very poor people always occupy a very small proportion. In fact, extreme phenomena are rare, and the rule "bad things are spreading fast" keeps a lot of people concerned about these few bad things, the root cause of all this is that people's psychology is at work.
