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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
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Subject: Re: User comparison study
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Date: 17 Jul 90 00:21:25 GMT
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Offhand I'd say that this study simply shows that poor students not
only spend less time in public school learning to write, spell, and
compose, they also spend less time learning how to use the writing tools
such as computers, word processors, and spell-checkers.  

In other words, as in all they things they approach, they pick the easiest
and quickest to finish the assignment.  The easiest subject, the shortest
sentences, the fewest pages, the least research, the easiest computer
to start up and operate.  It is all of one piece and the fabric is there
for anyone to admire.

A brand of computer doesn't make you stupid anymore than a skil saw
versus a hand saw or a broom versus a vacuum cleaner.  But the terminally
lazy will pick the power tool or the vacuum cleaner and do a half-assed 
job if for no other reason than they never really learn what they are
doing and never take the time to learn the subtleties of the job and the
tools.  No technique.

Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com