NancyLebovitz comments on Human performance, psychometry, and baseball statistics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 16 October 2010 02:47:05PM 2 points [-]

Any theories about why there aren't more 5,000 hour skills?

Comment author: Cyan 17 October 2010 12:59:59AM 4 points [-]

Well, my claim that tasks that take 10,000 hours to master are most common was pulled from the general vicinity of my posterior. If I were going to devote more than 4 minutes of thought to the topic I'd want to be a lot more careful about the whole question.