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26 Post author: katydee 26 April 2014 06:54AM

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Comment author: anonym 17 May 2014 04:44:16PM 1 point [-]

I think it's more useful to keep the meaning of "skill" as something like "the ability to do something well", which is what everybody expects you mean when you use the word, and talk instead about better and worse applications of skills. It's not the skill that's context dependent, but how useful or beneficial the application of the skill is in a particular scenario.