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23rd September 2019 - Link Blog

The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (via) Research from 2016: “Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks”

Posted 23rd September 2019 at 2:49 pm

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