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Re:Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours... by jwb119 on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @04:22PM (#2439062)
do you have a citation or any evidence for this?
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Re:Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours... by alecco on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @05:14PM (#2439340)
Are you being funny or are you implying results can be linear?

Have you ever seen personal bests charts? Save specific cases of breaktrhoughs, it plots very logarithmic for everybody. That is diminishing returns, more or less.

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Re:Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours... by dereg on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @03:09AM (#2441113)
Are you not citing anything?
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