Software is another example. Give me a new piece of software and I’ll muddle around and see what the buttons do, like a normal person. Apparently many office workers demand an official tutorial and won’t even touch the software until they’ve been “taught” to use it.
My father is consistently amazed at my ability to successfully execute this algorithm several orders of magnitude faster than he can. Often I solve his problem by pointing out something on the same screen that he’s been staring at for fifteen minutes.
(He should find some way of hiring himself out as a usability tester or something; if there’s a way to misinterpret or overlook some option in a computer program, he’ll find it.)
I wonder if they could be “taught” to use this:
My father is consistently amazed at my ability to successfully execute this algorithm several orders of magnitude faster than he can. Often I solve his problem by pointing out something on the same screen that he’s been staring at for fifteen minutes.
(He should find some way of hiring himself out as a usability tester or something; if there’s a way to misinterpret or overlook some option in a computer program, he’ll find it.)