On Fechner, Weber, Whorf, Zipf and Pareto

I feel like I should start with an apology: this is a long, barely readable post. But you might earn some satisfaction from it, once you realize I scanned the entire English Wikipedia just to find, or not, evidence for a 19th century psychophysics law! Anyway, if you survive this post, and wish for a prize of some sort, email mw and I will grant you a badge. Logarithmic Perception I recently stumbled upon an interesting article published in Science Magazine back in 2008 by Stanislas Dehaene et.