When discussing stats and their effects on missed notes,
keep in mind that Verant defined a skill of 75 as average.
With this is mind, the speculation that having 110 versus
140 dex or agility or charisma makes a large difference in missed
notes is probably off the mark. Think of selling prices. Going
from 60 to 75 chr makes a noticable difference. But going from
150 to 200 makes no difference. Why? Its capped of course (best
selling price minus 5 percent I believe). There is an elastic
range in which stat increases make a large difference but after
a certain point, you hit a point of diminishing returns. If
a person with 110 dex is missing notes constantly, I submit
that what ever the source of the problem, it is not that
particular stat. Based on the way other stats work, going
from 110 to 140 would at best reduce missed notes 10 percent
or so.

One side note on stats and their progression. AGI and AC or INT
and MANA are different in nature. Stats that are linearly tied
to other stats tend to have an arithmetic progression by
definition. In contrast, the effect of stats on skill checks tend
to be asymptotic because there are only too possible outcomes-
success or failure. As you approach the tail of the bell curve,
each stat increase has a lower and lower impact on your success rate.
After all, you cant get a message like-

"You REALLY hit that note! Lullaby throws Werebat into a COMA!"

Charisma and prices are interesting in that around the mean stat
(75), it moves like AGI and AC but because of the base selling
price, the variance is restricted and the impact hits a brick wall
like a yes/no skill check at the tails of the distribution.
So CHR looks like int around the mean but it tapers at the tails
like skill check related stats.

Of course, there is a lot of generalization in this post but I think the
basic point is fairly clear- super high stats are not the explanation
or solution to the missed notes problem (or bug). If anyone wants
to discuss the statistical issues in precise detail, I would be glad
to 8)

Baraden of TM, Rodcet, Prexus, Brell, SAS, and SPSS