Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!macman From: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Us Mac Yoosers R Stoopid Message-ID: <89330@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 8 Feb 91 15:46:45 GMT References: <7285@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> <1991Feb5.203528.12008@midway.uchicago.edu> <21297@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Feb8.094503.587@darwin.ntu.edu.au> Reply-To: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert) Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CIS Lines: 17 In article <1991Feb8.094503.587@darwin.ntu.edu.au> black_pd@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes: >Perhaps someone ought to do a controlled experiment in which people who >normally write on DOS machines do some writing on a Mac and vice versa, >so one could see how the same individuals did on different machines. >This would distinguish whether any differences were do to the machines >(and thus favour one over the other) or to the people who tend to use >each (in which case they might do just as well or poorly whichever >machine they used). No, this wouldn't work. The IBM fans would be to snobbish to work on a Mac, and would therefore sabotage the operation. And the Mac users working with WordPerfect would have their heads in the manual so often they'd be bound to pick up some technical writing and grammar skills along the way. This factor could be minimized by running 5.1 with a mouse, but that would almost defeat the purpose of our experiment, now wouldn't it? Dennis Lippert - macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu