> I think we really just disagree on the definition of the word "able". In one sense, "X% able," means "if you held a gun to their heads, X% end up pulling it

> I think we really just disagree on the definition of the word "able". In one sense, "X% able," means "if you held a gun to their heads, X% end up pulling it off." My wife can code and debug. There's no way in hell she'd ever do it for a job. However, if she was in a real life instance of "Saw" and she had to debug something to save my life, I'd like to think she'd at least try. In a practical survey sense in the western world, it means, "X% of the people you can get to participate." It's nonsense to talk about it in the 1st sense, unless you happen to be a totalitarian dictator with lackeys who would hold a gun to the subject's heads. That's kind of an odd parallel to draw. It's an apt parallel. Not all programmers have the inclination to do assembly. However, you can still do an experiment on the population who will. Does the sub-population of subjects you can get affect things? Maybe, but I don't think it makes too much of a difference here.