Questions to consider

• Is impact heavy tailed across interventions? To what extent?
• Is impact heavy tailed across fields? To what extent?
• Is impact heavy tailed across causes? To what extent?
• For mathematicians: how might we characterise heavy tailedness?

Resources

Articles in bold are worth focussing on first, as this is an optional week the reading a looser summary, you're encouraged to go research other information on this topic!

• Fun VSauce video on Zipf Law and Pareto Principle
• Short explainer on heavy tails and relation to altruism
• A similar explainer on heavy tails
• Is Suffering Heavy Tailed
• [A possible mathematical definition for heavy tailed distributions](https://rigorandrelevance.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/catastrophes-conspiracies-and-subexponential-distributions-part-ii/#:~:text=A catastrophe principle,unexpectedly large event (sample).)
• Why heavy tails might be common
• Characterising heavy-tailedness