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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • This study was only with 234 people.

    “A number of the participants in the survey were IT professionals, while most of the other participants were highly competent IT and computer users. Nevertheless, they encountered these problems, and it turns out that this involves some fundamental functions,”

    As someone that works in IT the amount of people I’ve come across that have little to no technical ability to be in that field is staggering. It had a high paycheck so they showed up. Doesn’t make them competent computer users.

    Lemmy pointed me to another study a bit ago. It was ~216K people ages 16-65 and multiple countries.

    One of the easy tasks was to use the reply-all feature for an email program to send a response to three people

    According to that study this is where 43% of the participants skills ended(or didn’t even reach cause I stuck level 0 and 1 together).

    This was the most depressing part…

    The numbers for the 4 skill levels don’t sum to 100% because a large proportion of the respondents never attempted the tasks, being unable to use computers.

    So my above 43% is really 69% of users. That’s where their abilities taper off.