E02¶


Research	R0007 — AI Made Everyone Faster
Run	2026-03-19
Claim	C001
Source	SRC01
Evidence	SRC01-E02
Type	Factual

Power-law (Paretian) distribution finding confirmed.

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01239.x

Extract¶

From the abstract: "Results are remarkably consistent across industries, types of jobs, types of performance measures, and time frames and indicate that individual performance is not normally distributed—instead, it follows a Paretian (power law) distribution."

Relevance to Hypotheses¶

Hypothesis	Relationship	Strength
H1	Supports	Strongly supports — power-law finding matches claim
H2	Supports	Strongly supports — core finding confirmed
H3	Contradicts	Strongly contradicts — finding is confirmed, not wrong

Context¶

The power-law finding is the paper's central contribution and has been widely cited and discussed in the organizational behavior literature.