Teens don't have a clue about IT? (2016)

Post by tpmx » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 1:22 AM UTC

horsawlarway wrote: post #23

tpmx wrote: post #3

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An observation doesn't need to be constructive. I needs to be relevant and novel. This is a relevant and novel observation. The people seemingly feeling hurt by this - you do realize you're outliers, right?

You're getting downvoted because this is neither relevant nor novel. The number of folks who genuinely understand computers has been rising at unprecedented rates. Just look at the number of employed programmers. Does that mean most children understand it? Of course not, just like most adults don't. When Grandma is amazed that her grandkids manage to make Netflix work, I don't think there's any real expectation that…

Post by dang » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 1:29 AM UTC

jdofaz wrote: post #39

This is from 2016

Post by ska » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 1:35 AM UTC

p1necone wrote: post #41

rc-5 wrote: post #32

Allow me to preface this by saying that I am, in fact, a teen, and absolutely do not represent the majority of teenagers. This post is a generalization and a subjective rant that absolutely doesn't hold up in real life. >>>When you explain what happens under the hood, they will ignore you. When you tell them what a certain setting probably does, they will ignore you. In my experience, although there may be some teena…

Thanks for this, I take everything written about teenagers from the perspective of anyone >~20 with a huge grain of salt, because I'm not old enough to forget yet how completely and utterly out of touch adults were about my generation of teenagers when I was younger.

Post by non-entity » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 1:49 AM UTC

rootsudo wrote: post #31

I am happy that I grew up in the golden age of computing - people say it was the 80's, but being a "90's" kid, we had classes from HTML w/ dreamweaver, how to modify/break windows 95/98 --- In fact in NYC, my elementary school had keyboard class where you'd learn to type and general proficiency w/ a computer. In Florida, middle school photoshop, dreamweaver, fireworks and even access database. High school had C++ cla…

Post by Johnny555 » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 1:59 AM UTC

craftinator wrote: post #68

Johnny555 wrote: post #24

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Not one in 100,000 could milk a cow. I know this wasn't your point, but I'll nitpick anyway since that number felt too low, so I checked, and the number seems like it should be closer to 1 in 200. There are 72M children [1] below the age of 18 in the USA today, so 1 in 100,000 would only be 720 and there's something like 40,000 dairy farms in the USA, and I'd bet every child on those farms older than 8 (probably youn…

Damn, Johnny. Remind me not to post unsubstantiated statistics around you.