In class this week we organized the data about plants in Kansas into a Pareto curve. This week I decided to do more with this Pareto curve. The Pareto curve is named after Vilfredo Pareto who observed that 80% of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of 20% of the population. The Pareto principle states that 80% of outcomes are due to 20% of causes. I wanted to see if that was true for this data.
This was not true. Only 5 species caused 80% of cases out of a total number of 149 plant species. A value of only 3%.