The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think

Re:The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than Yo... by Illniyar on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @01:59AM (#13112753)

I took the test (demo test at least).

Only 2 out of 6 questions had anything to do with UI/UX - the rest were either reading comprehension and/or basic math.

From the 2 that dealt with UI/UX, both were extremely hard, in one of them I had to send an email, get a token and navigate the site to send another email.

If this is what the results are based on, I wouldn't base any UI/UX decisions for web products on the results of this test.

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Re:The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than Yo... by mrob on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @05:13AM (#13113549)

The simulated environment also makes it more difficult. I accidentally tried to go back in the real browser instead of the simulated browser and broke the test. The simulated environment is also very slow.

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Re:The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than Yo... by hbk1966 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @01:43PM (#13117137)

And I requested the code 2 or 3 times until I realized there was a email tab at the bottom.

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Re:The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than Yo... by digi_owl on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:58AM (#13114572)

yeah, one of them told me to highlight a passage of text in some dense report about education effects. WTF does that have to do with "computer literacy"?!

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Re:The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than Yo... by colmvp on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:34AM (#13115889)

Yeah isn't that just reading comprehension?

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