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I don't understand this logic at all. How can more information be bad? If you see a mass that looks very likely to not be cancer, for which the cost of further investigation is hig…

There is an external force here: gravity.

One cool way to generate Zipf's law is through random growth. See an example here for the distribution of cities: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/114/3/739/1848099 The idea is…

Not quite! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function

Do you a reference for these statements? I'd be curious to read more about the topic.

"This share has been age-standardized assuming a constant age structure to compare prevalence between countries and through time." Not sure why the rate is so much higher in the US…