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Bhante Subharo

@thibaultamartin I đź’Ż % agree, however this chart is a really hard-to-swallow inconvenient truth, my good fellows.

It's likely all of you are in that fortunate green 5ish percent at the top of the chart, optimistically wondering when the other 95% will "catch up."

No magic wand can raise people's technical aptitude when it's not in their nature (if it isn't something forcefully taught in schools).

The chart came from this #psychology study, BTW: eddl.tru.ca/wp-content/uploads
13 October at 10:10 | Wall-to-wall | Open on c.im
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Toke Frello

@sbb @thibaultamartin I find myself returning to that chart again and again.

Also, it’s worth pointing out what eg. lvl. 2 is:

“An example of level-2 task is “You want to find a sustainability-related document that was sent to you by John Smith in October last year.” “

13 October at 14:00 | Open on mastodon.social
Three plus or minus five

@tokefrello @sbb @thibaultamartin
I’m torn between the reactions of

“ouch, that’s not a very technical task”

and

“I actually have no idea how I would do it on the terrible mail and document systems I am required to use for work”

13 October at 14:17 | Open on mastodon.online
Toke Frello

@ThreeSigma @sbb @thibaultamartin Yeah, me too. The systems they tested on were generic and built for the test, as far as I understand, so I’ve been assuming that they’re not as messy as, say, Outlook - but I don’t know.

In the end, I guess the statement “*For some reason*, 70% of people can’t do what should be a pretty basic task on computers.” is still pretty bleak, and something that should be accounted for in design of public digital services etc.

13 October at 17:17 | Open on mastodon.social
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