[dwaltrip]

How much of this stuff has fundamental implications for the hardest problems that scientists, researchers, and policy makers are facing today?

My intuition says many of those problems have high dimensionality, but I'm not really confident about my intuition here.

[trhway]

this is probably why such things like "average" person (or any other object with multiple characteristics) practically don't really exist. Everybody is [close to] exceptional in at least some of their characteristics or their combination :)