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People in general are very bad at knowing what the average experience is. We almost all have a predisposition to perceive our experience as being approximately normal, or if not, not too far away from normal. This is especially exaggerated anywhere experts of a domain congregate. They adjust to a significantly biased frame of reference. And that results in opinions that don't fall anywhere within the galaxy of what's reasonable for the vast majority of users of a given thing.


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