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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016) (www.nngroup.com)

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (32 children)

I believe the most computer proficient people were born between 1975 and 1995. Before that and they were too old to figure it out without a lot of effort. After that they grew up with touch screens and it’s all just magic. Right in the middle we were able to grow along with advancements in computing.

I was teaching a class with mostly students born after 2000. One of them had never used a computer with a keyboard and mouse. Never used folders and files. Kind of blew me away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I would put it up to 1999.
But the returns of 1995-1999 are very small indeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

:(

EDIT: Welp, I guess I just proved someone else's point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Btw the ">" at the beginning starts a quote.
To prevent that put a \ before something like a * or >. Like this: \\>. Hope I could help you :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is exactly what happened. I was trying to jokingly express anger at seeing my birth year being correlated with being tech-illiterate, so I typed a '>:(' emoji, not realizing I needed an escape-character to avoid it looking like quote.