Episode 51 Pareto's Law
Along the way, the tunnels are dark.
Dean Bazhi and Commander Lychee, with their tentacles leaning forward, kept exploring the way, following the scent route, side by side.
The biggest difference between the inside of an ant nest and a human dwelling:
First, there is no furniture and no electrical appliances.
Second, there is no water or electricity.
At night, except for a room with a window, you can see things by moonlight.
The remaining 99% of the passages and rooms are blinded by black lights, like a blind man touching an elephant.
Although they generally have five eyes (two compound eyes and three monocular eyes, the compound eye is responsible for seeing objects and one eye is responsible for light sensing), their vision is not much better than that of humans with two eyes.
And like humans, their eyes do not have night vision, and they are all sympathetic and sympathetic in the visual field like the hard-pressed humans:
Bright and shining during the day, blind at night.
But despite this, in an environment where they can't see their fingers, ants still have their feet like the wind, which is more Bolt than Liu Feiren, making human beings envious, jealous and hateful.
Why is that?
The answer is urine!
Urine, as soon as you hear this word, almost everyone will pinch their noses and look disdainful.
Urine, in the human world, except for the vegetable farmer uncle and a few perverts, is in the eyes of the vast majority of people - waste.
But in the ant world, urine is indispensable for all ants to travel during the day and walk at night - treasure!
Because there is urine along the way as a marker.
So, even if their eyes are black at night, they still sense the smell of urine through their antennae, and walk exactly where they want to go.
……
"Eldest sister, you say, it's really a hell! Why are you looking for it, but you can't find it?"
Ant Lychee wrinkled her antennae as she walked and asked Ant Ba Branch, "Could it be that they were really eaten by ghouls and entered their stomachs, so they couldn't even see a corpse?"
"It's not impossible. Ant Bazhi said in a deep voice.
"Although the living ants of our tribe have never been attacked and eaten by ghouls, these so-called human insects may be more interesting to ghouls when they are fresh, which is also possible. ”
Ant Bazhi pondered for a while, and then added.
"Then what are we going to do? The Queen Mother won't stop our search because of our unfounded speculations, and the soldiers and ant sisters under me will be a little overwhelmed by the search for them like this. ”
The rectangular face of the ant lychee has become a bitter gourd face at the moment.
Although she and Ant Bazhi are in different departments and have no subordinate relationship between superiors and subordinates, Sister Bazhi is a month older than her after all, and in the hierarchy of the Ant Tribe, she is the first to look after Ant Bazhi in many things.
"Grab the ghoul and crack its belly!"
The antba branch stopped and said fiercely.
Since the ghoul appeared strangely in the ant nest, many sisters were so frightened that they did not dare to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, and the queen ordered them to track down the evil spirit that desecrated the remains of their dead sisters.
However, no matter how hard they tried, it was as if they were playing hide and seek with a cloud of air, and they still had no clue, so that she, the worker ant prime minister, Alexander.
During this time, it was rumored among the maids that the queen was going to remove her as prime minister and dean and let the younger worker ant sister take the throne, if this was the case, then what face did she have to continue to stay in the tribe?
Thinking of this, for several days, she couldn't sleep at night, and she was determined to solve the ghoul thing, find it, catch it and kill it!
In front of 1.26 million sisters, re-establish her precarious prestige! Let the queen rest assured and let everyone feel at ease!
A crisis can also be a turning point.
Ant Bazhi has always been resolute.
"You immediately gather all the heads of all the active soldier ant departments to come to my room for a meeting, and we will reformulate a search plan!"
She stared into the eyes of the commander-in-chief of the soldiers and whispered.
"Okay!" Ant Lychee nodded its tentacles and walked away.
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The underground space of the ant nest is like a labyrinth.
With 3,000 main roads, 4,500 small roads, and 6,675 rooms, it's intricate and dazzling.
And it's pitch black.
In such an extremely harsh environment, looking for 3 small points can be described as looking for a needle in a haystack.
Therefore, the right approach and thinking are extremely important. Good methods do more with less, and wrong methods do more with less.
So, how should Yu Qiyun and Yue'an's plan to find someone be carried out?
This is a key problem that they must solve before they set off to go to the maze!
"Yue'an, what's your train of thought?" Yu Qiyun put his hands on Yue'an's shoulders and asked in a deep voice.
Although he is smart and witty in many ways, and is a top student in the Department of Psychology, he is still a primary school student in front of Yue An when it comes to animals and nature.
If you are a primary school student, you must have the courage to ask questions.
Yue An seemed to have thought about this question many times, he looked at Yu Qiyun and smiled slightly:
"Have you ever heard of the 'Pareto Rule'?"
"I know! This rule is also called the 80/20 efficiency rule!" Yu Qiyun's eyes lit up and said excitedly.
He studied psychology.
The purpose of psychology is actually to explore a method and way of thinking to solve the problems of human psychology and thinking.
Therefore, this "Pareto law" has naturally been studied in depth. And very impressive.
Pareto was a famous Italian economist in the 19th century, and when he studied the distribution model of wealth and income in human society, he made an astonishing discovery:
20% of the population often owns 80% of the wealth.
This peculiar proportion of numbers is not only happening in the economic and material sphere, but also in many ways is surprisingly consistent.
This gives rise to a famous law:
Pareto's Law.
It is also commonly referred to as the 80/20 efficiency rule.
The central idea of this law is:
There is generally an imbalance between cause and effect, effort and harvest. The typical scenario is that 80% of the gains come from 20% of the effort, and the other 20% of the effort leads to only 20% of the results.
This law is called by many scholars: the most labor-saving law.
Its central principle is one sentence:
Less is more, and finding a few is the key!
The 80/20 efficiency rule, like chaos theory, is a non-linear way of thinking, many things are not important and can be ignored, but there are always a few keys with unexpected decisive forces.
We're just going to find these few points that play a key role!
So what is the key point in finding Li Enchanting and them, and what is the 20% that plays a decisive role?
Yu Qiyun and Yue An lit up at the same time:
In the underground labyrinth of the ant nest, there are countless roads and countless rooms.
But it is also divided into internal self-awareness and deconstruction complex.
And these complex rooms are often the best choice for ghouls to hide.
So they all looked at the ant jasmine:
"What are the most complicated passages and rooms in your interior?
Looking at their solemn and solemn expressions.
Ant Jasmine didn't dare to slack off, and said for a long time:
"The passage, to nothing, whether it is a big road or a small road, it is a simple tunnel, not complicated at all, the view is very wide, there is nothing special.
She muttered for a while, and then said:
"We don't have a lot of complicated rooms, just these few places: garbage dumps, cemeteries, toilets, food storage rooms, nursery classrooms. ”