I would be surprised if as many as 7% of the people in my high school and undergraduate physics classes had plausible futures as physicists. I certainly didn't.

I would be surprised if as many as 7% of the people in my high school and undergraduate physics classes had plausible futures as physicists. I certainly didn't. It was maybe three individuals. That doesn't make the rest of us lazy or dumb, it just makes us not physicists. The faculties for software engineering are not quite so rare, but I would argue there's a similar dynamic going on.