Poor education
It is a recurring theme of this column that there is a vast gulf between what users are reasonably expected to know and how little they actually know.
I thought in these modern times it was the duty of the schools to give people a basic competence in computing, just as is supposed to happen with English and Arithmetic. Er, ...
Half the population is below average, and about a sixth are more than one standard deviation below average. But the beancounters think it is cheaper to employ the lower half. Which half do you think the beancounters come from?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
