On 27 Apr 2007 09:07:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dean Kent) wrote: >The human mind has a limited capacity for organizing information into >something meaningful. It would be interesting to see a graph showing the >percentage of people able to properly handle various levels of complexity, >and I suspect that as the complexity increases the dropoff would become more >and more dramatic vs. something more linear. Therefore, rather than an >excuse, concern about complexity would seem to be a very real one. Were >the carpenter's tools to be come so complex that only the most talented of >people could use them, carpentry would likely become so expensive as to >eventually become a lost art, or at best an extremely arcane one. Do you >disagree?
A lot of our smarts is in seeing patterns, simplifying what we are looking for. Occasionally this kind of shortcut causes us to miss things, but pattern recognition allows the chess master to ignore dead ends that poorer players waste time on. I see craftsmen and artists using tools that are difficult to master - but supply and demand doesn't take that into consideration in setting prices for their goods. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
