I fear I no longer have much appreciation for what the typical level of computer literacy is.
I work on tools used by other developers, so a ton of my day-to-day life is not at all representative of the population at large.
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I think software maintainers can perceive their projects as way more buggy than they actually are.
You spend more time looking at the bug tracker, which is (hopefully!) not representative of typical usage.
Twitter users are younger, more left-leaning, and more educated, than the US median: https://www.pewinternet.org/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/
Interesting to see that despite its size, the userbase isn't entirely representative in some areas (although the article mentions it's pretty similar in others).
Words per minute is an unfortunate measure of typing speed. The average length of letters differs between natural languages. For many computing activities it's even less representative: IDE shortcuts, punctuation in programming, etc.