--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mike" <melbedewy1226@...> wrote: Anybody under the delusion that they can play rapidly for hour after hour after hour with "computer accuracy" is in serious need of an ego adjustment.
FK Reply:
Here's one of those rare posts where my having managed a VP team makes me uniquely qualified to answer.
If you mean 100% flawless then I would agree with you. If however we adjust this to attaining 99.9% accuracy it is very difficult, but not impossible.
If you'd like some hard numbers, out of 600 trainees we got 14 players that were capable of playing at an error rate of only one small mistake per hour.
That translates to 2% of the population being able to attain this level of accuracy and 98% being not up to the task. The "most people" argument wins here. The "Anybody" argument fails, I'm afraid to say.
In order to make our A team we required that trainees played 3 hours being watched by 2 supervisors with no more than 1 mistake per hour. We also followed that up with surprise inspections where a manager would sit next to a player and watch them during a long shift when they were fatigued. They still passed.
Only 11% of our 600 trainees made the team at all (2-3 mistakes per hour). And only 1 out of 5 of those made the A team...and this was to learn only one strategy.
It's fine to say it's hard. But suggesting it's impossible is like saying no one can type at 150 words a minute. At least one person in the world can. In fact the world is filled with people that can do things we can't. I'm curious as to why your post was so strong that you touted playing VP accurately as delusional?
Hard...sure! Impossible, no.
~FK
