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The Tipping Point
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- To appreciate the power of epidemics, we have to abandon this expectation about proportionality.†
Chpt Intr.proportionality = the quality of appropriateness in size, amount, or degree
- When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.†
Chpt 1 *disproportionality = the quality of inappropriateness in size, amount, or degreestandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionality reverses the meaning of proportionality. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
Definitions:
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(proportional) appropriate or related in size, amount, or degree
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)