Considering that personal computers have been around since 1975 or so, they
also have shown a lot of ignorance it they think those questions apply to
anyone over 50. I'm 54 and I've been playing around with computers since
high school. I'm sure the questionnaire was put together by college
students who think anyone over 50 can't possibly be good at computer
stuff....not even thinking that they wouldn't be able to put that thing
online if it weren't for the guys at DARPA who created ARPANET in the 60's.
Or Doug Engelbart who sketched out the whole concept of hyperlinks and
built the first mouse muchh earlier.
On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/4/2017 9:45 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
>> I got turned off by the questions on whether help was available when I
>> needed it, whether my family thought I should go online etc. The reality is
>> that I have been using the internet since 1983, and when someone in the
>> family has a problem I am usually the one who solves it. Clearly the survey
>> was not aimed at me.
>>
>
> I don't blame you. OTOH, those doing the survey seem to have some
> inaccurate assumptions about computer/internet use by older folks. By
> refusing to refute them, you skew the survey in favor of their assumptions.
>
> I went ahead and answered all the silly questions. But then, I spent part
> of my business career running a department that ran customer surveys, among
> other things, so I may have a soft spot. :-)
>
> Moose D'Opinion
>
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