On 10/18/2011 11:58 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > We did this for about 15 years - without any success. If you look > at some of the studies you will see that you can't teach that stuff > to non-techies - sometimes not even to engineers.
As a data point from 2005: I was teaching computer literacy at the University of Iowa. The first day of class I asked the 35 students which of them brought a computer of any kind to class. Three people raised their hands: they all said they brought laptops. When I asked how many brought cell phones, all 35 raised their hands. The only people who thought cell phones were computers were the three who brought laptops. I then asked if a game console (XBox, Playstation, take your pick) was a computer. The class was almost evenly split: half said yes, on account of how you could surf the web with it. Half said no, because you can't write a Word document with it. Admittedly, this is not a representative sample of college students. That said, I think it's an informative anecdote. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
