The average person cannot be Scott Adams either. The point is that you could make the comparison to the top 1% (that's what a pro athlete is) of anything and p

The average person cannot be Scott Adams either. The point is that you could make the comparison to the top 1% (that's what a pro athlete is) of anything and point out that innate talent and hard work is what got them there. He uses athletes because it's easy - most of us don't have that ability, and somehow feel this isn't fair. Most Hacker News readers, though, are on the high end of the IQ scale. I sure as hell don't have to explain to you how (generally) our innate ability to understand computers better than the average person somehow means we have to work less...