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What thing are you exponentially more experienced in than the average person?

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What is the best skill you possess that makes you stand above the average person?

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Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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Exponentially denotes a progression, a rate of change. You probably mean greatly or vastly

For me it would be authoring images-illustration, rendering, etc. I guess most people can answer with their job

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droans@lemmy.world
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Don’t forget to add “being pedantic” to your list!

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Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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Being accurate with words isn’t being pedantic. There was an opportunity to teach, I took it. That’s it. Perhaps you got that impression because text doesn’t convey intent very well. That’s alright

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stevep@lemmy.world
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I am exponentially more experienced at swimming than the average person.

I’m actually a pretty average swimmer, so in this case the exponent is zero.

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jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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. I guess most people can answer with their job

Yeah I was going to make a pithy joke about my job, but note that having any skill in a field that’s at all niche puts you well above the average.

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OpenSourceDeezNuts@sh.itjust.works
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This is my biggest pet peeve. One data point can’t be exponentially more than one other data point without context.

If people still want to sound “smart” because they used a fancy math word, you can say “orders of magnitude more experienced.”

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