{"id":13482,"date":"2019-09-24T06:34:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T06:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=13482"},"modified":"2019-09-24T06:45:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T06:45:36","slug":"computer-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/09\/computer-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

We usually assume – even in science – that many if not all have high computer level skills. But that may not be true according to the Nielsen\u00a0Norman<\/em>\u00a0Group<\/span><\/a>. They summarize the results of any OECD survery where 215,942 people were tested, with at least 5,000 participants in most countries.<\/p>\n

26% of adult population<\/em>
\ncan\u2019t switch on Computers<\/p>\n

14% – <\/em>Below Level 1<\/strong>
\nBeing too polite to use a term like \u201clevel zero,\u201d the OECD researchers refer to the lowest skill level as \u201cbelow level 1.\u201d
\nThis is what people below level 1 can do: \u201cTasks are based on well-defined problems involving the use of only one function within a generic interface\u201d.\u00a0 An example of task at this level is \u201cdelete this email message\u201d in an email app.<\/p>\n

29% – <\/em>Level 1<\/strong>
\nThis is what level-1 people can do: \u201cTasks typically require the use of widely available and familiar technology applications, such as email software or a web browser. ” An example of level-1 task is \u201cFind all emails from John Smith.\u201d<\/p>\n

26% – <\/em>Level 2<\/strong>
\nThis is what level-2 people can do: \u201cAt this level, tasks typically require the use of both generic and more specific technology applications.” An example of level-2 task is \u201cYou want to find a specific document that was sent to you by John Smith in October last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

5% – <\/em>Level 3<\/strong>
\nThis is what this most-skilled group of people can do: \u201cAt this level, tasks typically require the use of both generic and more specific technology applications.\u201d An example of level-3 task is \u201cYou want to know what percentage of the emails sent by John Smith last month were about a specific topic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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We usually assume – even in science – that many if not all have high computer level skills. But that may not be true according to the Nielsen\u00a0Norman\u00a0Group. They summarize the results of any OECD survery where 215,942 people were tested, with at least 5,000 participants in most countries. 26% of adult population can\u2019t switch … Continue reading Computer skills<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13487,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions\/13487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}