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Hm. Well, one person's casually obvious fact is another's unverified anecdote.
In my experience, physicists are typically skinny, toned, and in reasonably good cardiovascular shape, but not necessarily "good at sports compared to typical people" after adjusting for education and free time / flexibility of work hours. They tend to be good at running, swimming, pushups, karate, and Ultimate Frisbee, but not necessarily at tennis, football, wrestling, soccer, golf, basketball, or skiing. Again, that's just my biased set of estimates based on a nonrandom sample of about 10 physicists and 20 people with comparable lifestyles but other careers. I wouldn't expect it to be at all representative of national or global trends, and I'm surprised that you feel confident about your assertion.
Wrestling I may not put in the negative category - simply because it is a skill that would be incidentally improved by the general tendency for martial arts training.
That sounds right on all points. My guess is that you are just using an unrealistic baseline. Typical people really are shockingly bad at everything.
Lol. Yes, that is indeed one of my more prominent flaws. When I was younger, people thought it was cute and called it "idealism." Now people just feel judged. I'm trying to learn how to maintain high standards and deep hope with less of a compromise to my epistemic rationality, i.e., less bias introduced into my baseline. Wish me luck!