You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner

Re:You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner by dan-robertson on Friday January 01, 2021 @05:06PM (#25607706)

There’s an opposite view argued here: https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ with the claim that it isn’t that hard to get to 95%ile of many activities but that this level of skill is still useful.

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Re:You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner by borroka on Saturday January 02, 2021 @12:51PM (#25614651)

It misses an important qualifier: 95% among who and for which activity? It is relatively easy to get to 95% for a skill/activity few care about. But try to become 95%ile in like baseball among the Texas 13-17 years old cohort and the music changes. I mean, I agree you can get to the top 5% in your neighborhood, but does it matter to any soul?

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Re:You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner by dan-robertson on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:01AM (#25670486)

That is literally specified in the first or second paragraph

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