A lot of things in modern tech we don't think are useful- up-front design, code comments, estimations- are just skills we aren't pushed to practice. Of course they won't be useful if we're terrible at doing them!
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I should've added examples in various endeavors to provide a frame of reference for people who have the intuition that 1 in 20 (pretty good middle school basketball player, often picked first in gym class) = NBA player (literally among the best in the world).
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Being clearer about who counts would help. My assumption for chess was that the relevant class was "people who've played a game in the past 1-2 years", which I suspect is less than 100 million.
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For instance, I think I play more chess than the average human being, but a histogram of 2 year periods in my (> 6 year old life) of how many games of chess I played chess would probably split: 0, 0, 1 - 50, 50+, 50+.
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