20% of alcohol drinkers consume 80% of the alcohol. I actually believe that one, used to be in the 20%

80% of muscle gain is built by 20% of the repetitions.

LOL that’s just incel ideology, it’s the exact same shit as “80% of FEEEMALES only fuck the 20% of CHAAADS”

It’s not a principle it’s a statistical distribution

That’s literally not how lifting works lol

You can’t do a 1x3 in place of a 5x3 and expect similar results

the pareto principle is when there’s inequality.

It’s useful because in 20% of work I can get 80% of a good result. That’s usually good enough, so 80% of the day i do fuck all

20% of my ass produces 80% of the doo doo.

20% of the bees produce 80% of the honey.

Glancing at the Wiki page, it seems like it comes from this dude realizing “Whoa. In Italy 80% of the land is owned by 20% of the population” and that being used to create this “principle” to apply to other things.

A reasonable person might ask “Damn why is land ownership so messed up?” To which the economist replies “Well clearly it’s just the natural state of the world.”

That’s basically it. It’s just “80% of x is caused by 20% of y” or vice versa. It’s not a real principle, just a thought terminating cliche.