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The Great Antidote

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How Did They Come Up With That Number?

The most famous paper in all of skill acquisition literature was not rigorously done. Even the same person when they had to do it multiple times didn't recount their hours of practice in their life perfectly perfectly accurately and so ultimately the researchers decided to basically ballpark round it essentially.

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