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It's very interesting with this perspective of internet popularity of the concept.

I remember the Wikipedia entry from a long time ago as much shorter than the current version, so went back in time.

In 2018, the article was much shorter: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_principle&o...

But I really like the visualization in the 2018 version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peters_principle.svg.

And as I can learn from other HN comments below, there was indeed real studies conducted in 2018, so the comical/logical hypothesis has been further developed and empirical evidence is now also there.



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