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This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all.
"90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands," Russell said. "I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for. At the end I'll say to them, 'Let me show one little trick here,' and very often people will say, 'I can't believe I've been wasting my life!'"
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday December 23 2019, @09:32PM (1 child)
No way. I mean, consider everyone visiting this site and the green site and the other sites we frequent. I bet 99% of the people on those sites know about using Ctrl-F to search in a web page, and they're a representative sample, right? After all, they:
I have no idea [imgur.com] what this study could be talking about. I heard from something my friend re-instagrammed me that it's those vaccines that cause scientists to create conspiracy theories and say dumb things, so I bet that's what happened here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 24 2019, @07:42AM
You don't need vaccines if you consume enough antioxidants (reducing agents) to reduce your diseases. In societies with sufficient diets a virus like Measles is of little concern.