He found that it took a relatively small number of hands for skillful players to start winning more consistently than less skilled ones.
They argue that perception is a kind of skillful activity which essentially involves the deployment of sensorimotor skills in exploring the environment.
"Given this natural aversion to human waste, it takes rigorous research, careful implementation and skillful social marketing to overcome the 'yuck' factor," says Kramer.
It will probably require us to hire more experienced and skillful people.
But charismatic leadership is not essential to populism: Le Pen is a skillful politician, but she's no de Gaulle; Umberto Bossi is no Mussolini.
Germany has a bigger population than England but not by enough of a margin to explain its crushingly superior record of tournaments won and finals reached.The reason for England's under-achievement is that it lacks the grassroots infrastructure to develop skillful young players.
And Germany's excellent youth academies are churning out skillful players, meaning clubs do not have to spend millions in the transfer market in their pursuit of glory.
In fact, however, umpires are human, and Mr Fast shows they can be duped by skillful catchers far more than most fans would ever have thought possible.The study's methodology is straightforward: it simply compares the ratio of balls to called strikes when pitchers throw to a given catcher to those same pitchers' ratios with other catchers.
All of them, meanwhile, will soon have to figure out how to respond to the increasingly eloquent, skillful and confident needling of the Alternative for Germany.
He was capable, skillful, and popular.
An actor must be skillful and an audience must be imaginative if Macbeth, seeing a phantom dagger in the air, or Othello, falling down in an epileptic seizure, is to be moving and impressive instead of merely ludicrous.
