Skills

[supergee]

As a child, I took an IQ test. The authorities never told me my score but said I was in the top 1%. Over the years I have come to a frightening realization: It’s true. 99% of humanity is stupider than I am, and I don’t know shit. (Millions of Americans trust Donald Trump.) Unsurprisingly, there is a similar distribution of computer skills.

Thanx to andrewducker

Comments

[weofodthignen]

My job has reinforced the suspicion I had when I was in adult education: a large number of people simply can't read. The Japan percentages tend to support the conclusion that this is a big factor, given the comparative difficulty of reading Japanese. I suspect muscle memory and other familiarity phenomena also play a role, and possibly undiagnosed or ignored vision problems, since they used such a rigid, artificial environment to achieve comparability and based, again, on what I've observed at work. That's not to take away from the anti-arrogance message, but I still don't think they are succeeding in defining the parameters of the problem. (I'd probably be Level 2.)