If begging is the way somebody earns enough money to live on, is that not pretty much the same thing - I know people with normal jobs who do it "out of desperat

If begging is the way somebody earns enough money to live on, is that not pretty much the same thing - I know people with normal jobs who do it "out of desperation", not because they love the job but because they need money and can't find any other job. But that's besides the point; I took two random examples not to highlight them but along the logic that everyone does this in all walks of life. Without putting any scientific thought into it, I have, whether purposefully or not, tried and improved my methods for cooking, for playing sports, for smoking cigarettes... anything. > I would say that comedians have always been among the top professional A/B testers The logic behind this statement, in your later reply to me, being that it's much easier to be a mediocre chef than a mediocre comic, but that says nothing about the quality of the testing, all it says is that there is a much longer tail on the graph of quality in cooking. The fact that it is easier to be a mediocre chef than it is to be a mediocre comic really only speaks to the demand of both services, not how much testing they do or how good it is.