How Is It Possible that 90% of People Don’t Know About Command + F?

This seems unsufferable . The thinking of feature to employ a computer every single day without knowing how to keyboard search is maddening . And yet , according to a Google researcher , almost the intact human population lives this way .

The Atlantic ’s Alexis Madrigalrelays this confounding stat after sit down with Google ’s Dan Russell :

“ I do these sphere studies and I ca n’t tell you how many minute I ’ve sat in somebody ’s house as they ’ve read through a prospicient document trying to detect the resultant they ’re looking for . At the terminal I ’ll say to them , ‘ have me show one footling trick here , ’ and very often people will say , ‘ I ca n’t believe I ’ve been waste my life ! ' ”

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Do they just scroll ? And roll , and scroll , and scroll , reading every single word until they regain the one they ’re looking for ? Do they just give up ? Think how many papers go unwritten , how many gifts go un - given — all because 90 % of humans ca n’t find what they ’re appear for . It may be well-to-do to drop a line this off as a 21st century luxury — after all , people did look for written things for those millennium before the computer existed — but it ’s not . We ’re in a data deluge , and the inability to explore is a serious check . Copy and glue keyboard shortcuts are a convenience . But the ability to find a word among tens of 1000 with the press of a couple buttons is a major power . I can only some of that 90 % will hit upon this post , and have a keen divine revelation . If you are one of those hoi polloi , make bidding + F or control + F on your keyboard , and drink enlightenment . [ The Atlantic ]

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