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by godelski 369 days ago
For comparison, the average person can't print Hello World in python. Your average programmer (probably) can.

It's surprisingly simple to be above average in most tasks. Which people often confuse with having expertise. It's probably pretty easy to get into the 80th percentile of most subjects. That won't make you the 80th percentile of people that do the thing, but most people don't. I'd wager 80th percentile is still amateur.