Why "Crazy" is the New Normal
Of course you find this out by doing it on your own. Some explanations or data just keep coming up.
Let's take some "freak-o-nomic" data.
We've known for years that there's some number breaks:
Pareto Principle: (80/20 rule) That 80 percent of your income comes from 20 percent of your clients. 80% of your problems in a business come from 20% of your employees.
Worse, this compounds itself. 20% of 20% gives about 4% - and looking for these types of statistics finds a range of breaks between 95 and 99, with the minority (5-1%) being the most active and the most creative (or as well, the worst dupes - on the other end of the scale. Spamming works because 1% will respond to anything you send them.) And then there is the "1%" which the Occupy movement railed against - who actually control most of the money worldwide. (Nothing new, actually.)
I've worked out (and you can check this math) that it's about .03^5 (.03 to the 5th power - or .03x.03.x.03x.03x.03) who will actually ever get something out of a given self-help program. (Which works out that it's about 1 in 20 billion who will get enlightened on this planet. Because its:
- 3 percent who accept the opportunity (open the email)
- 3 percent who buy the opportunity
- 3 percent who actually apply what they get
- 3 percent of those who will get their money back by applying it
- 3 percent of those who will become outrageously rich from it.
(This was worked out from watching a scammer organization work - and it's their figures I'm working with, after finding this number sequence out in a disrelated field.) But you can see that it's also widely applicable.
