As an anecdotal comparison: my father has been a computer programmer since back in the day when there was no such thing as “software”. He changed vacuum tubes...and went with it through I am not even sure how many iterations. He was still doing pramming until he retired last year.
He, cliche-edly, can barely program a VCR (blinking noon for 6 years...)
On another note, I teach the use of software for architects (it’s a side thing I do), and I watch students try to come to grips with modes of thought they are not familiar with (vector based v. raster images, for example). I can sit and watch a person freeze solid in dismay when I’ve asked them to do something I’ve seen them do dozens of times within the last hour.
Sometimes it’s not an issue of “being” clueless as it is “feeling” clueless. A student who has done a task recently is not actually clueless when flummoxed by something he/she has done before, nor is my father actually clueless about VCR’s. But they definitely feel clueless. Behavioraly the result is the same: inaction or incorrect action. But the source is different.
As an anecdotal comparison: my father has been a computer programmer since back in the day when there was no such thing as “software”. He changed vacuum tubes...and went with it through I am not even sure how many iterations. He was still doing pramming until he retired last year. He, cliche-edly, can barely program a VCR (blinking noon for 6 years...) On another note, I teach the use of software for architects (it’s a side thing I do), and I watch students try to come to grips with modes of thought they are not familiar with (vector based v. raster images, for example). I can sit and watch a person freeze solid in dismay when I’ve asked them to do something I’ve seen them do dozens of times within the last hour. Sometimes it’s not an issue of “being” clueless as it is “feeling” clueless. A student who has done a task recently is not actually clueless when flummoxed by something he/she has done before, nor is my father actually clueless about VCR’s. But they definitely feel clueless.
Behavioraly the result is the same: inaction or incorrect action. But the source is different.