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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Some of those 'idiots' might be brilliant engineers, top lawyers, salesmen or even brain surgeons.
Computers are tools. People need to know how to use them to accomplish the tasks they need to get done, they don't need to understand how they work. To anybody outside of IT, computers are no more interesting than photocopiers. You just need to learn the right combination of buttons to push to make it do what you want. (And on today's modern multi-function devices, that can be a task in itself.)
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Knowing to use Excel to open spreadsheets does not equal knowing how computers work. Someone who's job involves working with spreadsheets should at least know to use Excel, not Word.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
I can drive a car, but I couldn't strip a gearbox. Does that make me an idiot?
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This isn't the right analogy to the example that Graham gave. If someone goes to the repair shop saying that they can't start the car and it turns out that they were pressing on the brake pedal instead of the gas pedal, I would call that person an idiot.