I suspect the correlation coefficient between number of dives and competence is positive but low, especially in the first few hundred dives.
I also suspect you will get very different answers by asking divers to rate their competence at x hundred dives and by asking divers with twice as many dives to rate how good they were at that lower number.
We don’t know how bad we suck until we get good enough to realize how bad we used to suck. But even then, we don’t know how bad we still suck.
I also suspect you will get very different answers by asking divers to rate their competence at x hundred dives and by asking divers with twice as many dives to rate how good they were at that lower number.
We don’t know how bad we suck until we get good enough to realize how bad we used to suck. But even then, we don’t know how bad we still suck.