Intellectual ability is more or less normally distributed, but even asking this question about programming is a pretty good signal you're nowhere near the mean

Intellectual ability is more or less normally distributed, but even asking this question about programming is a pretty good signal you're nowhere near the mean of said distribution. I don't know, or really care for that matter, whether or not ability among the subset of the population that chooses to learn to write software is also normally distributed, but even if it is the mediocrities are still exceptional compared to the general public.