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Originally Posted by ma-skis.com
I think you missed what I meant about the cleverness and the tools, I believe that the end user who saved time by using those tools can now apply that brainpower and time on different problems. Consider the advent of the computer, did the workweek really get shorter because of it, or did we just find more things to do in a workday, thereby forcing people to developer broader skillsets.
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I take your point but respectfully disagree. I agree that it allows them to multi-task but does that make them smarter? You could say Jack of all trades, master of none. The debate is endless as there are too many variables that could be used to measure cleverness.
What I think would be an interesting little experiment would be e.g. to manipulate software to give significantly wrong results.
e.g. A statistics package and say a stress engineering package (which I know nothing about) just to see how many individuals would question the software and how many would actually go ahead and represent the results.
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Originally Posted by ma-skis.com
Have some people allowed technology to do things for them that they shouldn't... probably, but it is hard to say those individuals makes an entire society lazier, less capable than a previous.
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Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that they are lazier or less capable. I'm just saying that I'm far from convinced that just because they have more resources and tools that they aren't neccessarily more clever.
Is university education in China free or is it basically a commodity too?