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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 24 2019, @04:48AM (1 child)
As a teacher, you have no idea how close you are to the truth on that. Even more so when you are talking about the ones that become disillusioned or stuck in their ways. For goodness sake, we had a geography teacher teach that the Czech Republic and Slovakia were the same country and refused to accept anything other than "USSR" in reference to Russia, among other indiscretions, and then lied about to the principal about it for years. The Assistant Superintendent himself ended up investigated after receiving so many complaints against the teacher.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday December 25 2019, @12:06AM
Well, hopefully, the person in Control was able to tell her to F her attitude to find a new way to do things :-|