On 6/1/2010 5:54 AM, steve harley wrote:
On 2010-05-31 12:22 , P. J. Alling wrote:
Richer and better educated doesn't necessarly translate to more
intellegent.
which is why i didn't say i had disproved the assertion; just pointing
out how fruitless my search for the "study" had been
Though it used to be that Mac users didn't want to know anything about
the mechanics of their boxes and Dos/Windows users were forced to.
that stereotype was mostly generated by Apple marketing -- playing to
people's insecurities about whatever computer they were using
I guess it worked, when I more or less decided to join the PC
revolution, Microsoft and IBM made it relatively easy for me to learn
enough to be an expert, (at least compared to my clients), Apple not so
much.
i don't know that it was ever really well-founded
but from my perspective almost no one shows much interest in how the
computers they use work, regardless of the brand, and largely
uncorrelated with intelligence
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