The surgeon should hone a single technique for the vast majority of inguinal hernia repairs to maximize proficiency.
Most importantly, they can use external world knowledge to extrapolate far beyond the patterns contained in their training data, which is one of the reasons humans can learn from very small sets of training data, while machine learning algorithms require vast reams of it for even basic proficiency.
The vast majority of the participants rated their own English proficiency as medium level (74%% or n = 451), with about a quarter of them rating themselves as low level (23%% or n = 140), and a very small remainder as high level (3%% or n = 18).
These generalisations may or may not apply to any particular individual, but the point about proficiency in English seems to be true for the vast majority of the region's inhabitants.
In fact, there is a vast sector of the population that, though marked by an intrinsically inferior proficiency in any number of arenas, enjoys an unearned sense of confidence.
After top-scoring for Carlisle last season he is second only to the prolific Shane Long at Reading this year, with the vast majority of those goals coming from free-kicks and penalties – a proficiency attained even though, he says, "I never really practise them".
Do we really want to accept that the best that the United States can do for those 1 million 5-year-olds, with 13 years and vast resources at our disposal, is to get 90,000 of them to proficiency in math, while we let the other 910,000 fail?
And there is a vast range of time periods over which different individual reach their own peak of proficiency – their concert level, you might say – in whatever field.
With proficiency comes progress.
Proficiency engenders confidence.
"That's not proficiency".
