On Tue, 04 May 2010 19:38:15 CDT, Jorge Amodio said:
Are spammers getting smarter ? or users getting dumber ?
http://uxmag.com/short-news/these-are-your-users-read-and-be-horrified Remember that statistically speaking, roughly half of all people are below average on the IQ bell curve. A stupefyingly high percentage of your users are either illiterate, innumerate, or both, or severely lacking in critical thinking skills. In addition, keep in mind that the spammers and other miscreants probably come from the ends of that same bell curve - some brilliant guys who think they can do better than the average office job, and some bozos who can't get an average office job. A few years ago, I was watching CNN, and they had a segment on Yellowstone Park installing new bear-proof trash containers. They basically had a complex latch that was too complicated for bears. Unfortunately, a lot of tourists would be stumped (or not bother) and dumped their garbage outside the dumpster, and the bears would come along and get into the garbage. The take-away line of the segment was from a ranger at the park: "There appears to be significant overlap in intelligence between the smartest bear and the dumbest tourist".