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Average statistics can also be unhelpful because the kind of people who can do elite anything are by their very nature not average.
Instead what you need to look at are the extreme end of the distribution, which could bear little relation to anecdotal (or even scientific) evidence about the middle of the distribution.
That makes intuition hard to apply.