Computer skills in developed countries
2016-12-07 16:17:09.847227+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Nielsen Norman Group: The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think:
Overall, people with strong technology skills make up a 5–8% sliver of their country’s population, whatever rich country they may be coming from. Go back to the OECD’s definition of the level-3 skills, quoted above. Consider defining your goals based on implicit criteria. Or overcoming unexpected outcomes and impasses while using the computer. Or evaluating the relevance and reliability of information in order to discard distractors. Do these sound like something you are capable of? Of course they do.
Now consider this in the context of how much of basic computer use is just logical thinking...
OECD Skills Studies 2016: Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills