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		edmccard on Oct 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming books you might want to consider readi... >Baseball players waste 9 of every 10 swings on misses. And swinging a bat is one of the skills baseball players need to use for their job. The comment you replied to was talking about skills that are not going to be used every day. So I don't think your analogy is very useful.

oldmanjay on Oct 16, 2016 | [–]

Also, people who get paid to play baseball never have a batting average that low

tshaddox on Oct 16, 2016 | | [–]

Batting average will be higher than the percentage of swings that don't miss.

rimantas on Oct 17, 2016 | [–]

Yep, we don't use our brains every day.

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