Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots

danieltdp writes "Testing students at a University, psychologists made many of them click on a dialog box that in effect said: 'You are about to install some malware. Malware is bad. By clicking yes you are failing the Windows Darwin Test.' Nearly half of them said all they cared about was getting rid of these dialogs."

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And that makes it less wrong how?

[QZTR]

Well? He said it was "wrong", and it is. Calling it entertainment doesn't make it less wrong.

"Read all the words."

I suggest you do the same, specifically, the one spelled "w-r-o-n-g".

Frequent error dialogs and other sundry nasties

[dwarg]

Amen to that. Microsoft's three guiding philosophies of "good enough" and "how can we make this the users problem instead of ours" and "holy crap it worked, lets make sure they notice" manifest themselves most frequently in their own pop-up windows, modal or up from the task bar or whatever.

Every time I start my laptop it feels the need to show a bubble telling me the wireless network is connected. What do you want, a cookie?!? You know what? You're supposed to connect don't come bragging to me about it whenever you do.

The same thing happens every time I plug in a USB drive. "You have connected a removable media device. Click to close." Thanks for that, just in case I wasn't aware I plugged in a device. How thoughtful.

Whenever I put in a CD it has to autorun something because the average user has no idea how to get to the CD drive unless it pops up in front of them. Which is nice because I'd hate to be treated like a grownup and have to launch the appropriate application or file myself.

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