The User Is Drunk • Hacker News Board

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by cbd1984 » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 9:04 PM UTC

johnlbevan2 wrote: post #22

sharkweek wrote: post #15

Love it - How about this as an alternative: The user is stuck in a very (corporate/government/sluggish) environment. I will review your site/app from a major bank's / federal government's offices and report back! Or maybe this: The user is a 65 year old dad whose son doesn't come around often enough to ensure his father hasn't installed countless malware that he blames "internet" on. I will go to my dad's house and u…

The user is a woman: standard UX testing, only you're forced to confront your own preconceptions for having assumed it would be otherwise.

> The user is a woman

Nothing changes.

Downvoters are sexist.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by lips » Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 4:38 AM UTC

johnlbevan2 wrote: post #26

lips wrote: post #4

PEBCAB could be an issue.

Problem exists between chair and beer?

Ah, my people.

Re: The User Is Drunk

#223

Post by makemoves » Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 9:08 AM UTC

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Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by mistercow » Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 3:14 PM UTC

pfortuny wrote: post #198

mistercow wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> because AA helped save me from life-threatening alcoholism Given that there's pretty good evidence at this point that AA doesn't work on average, either a) AA didn't actually help you (you would have done it on your own anyway) or b) AA did help you, but that is balanced by an equal amount of harm so that the average still comes out as "not effective". In either case the conclusion is unescapable that AA should not…

You start Speaking on average and then conclude that it did not work FOR HIM. Does not compute, sorry.

Nope, I concluded that it either didn't work for him OR it works for some people, but causes enough harm to others that it balances out any good it does.