Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Sep 2006 15:56 UTC
A common heard question in the operating systems world is, 'if the alternatives to Windows are so much better, why aren't people en masse switching to them?' People come up with all sorts of answers to this question, but in fact, the social psychology world already has a fairly simple answer to this question. This answer also happens to actually explain why Zeta sold so well through the usually superficial television retail channel.
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2006-01-01
Stupidity and ignorance are not the same thing. You might be too stupid to understand something, but it does not follow that those ignorant of another subject are too stupid to understand it. I am sure that within the realm of my expertise there exists many things that you could not comprehend, but that given sufficient time that I could teach you the necessary information to understand arguments about. There may also be matters for which you are simply not capable of ever really grasping, no matter how much effort that I expend.
There may be those unable to grasp a discussion of the merits of say the MacOS vis-a-vis Windows, however your blunt shortcut does more to explain why people might dismiss your argument: you throw the characterizaton of stupid around casually in with a flamewar issue of MacOS vs. Windows. That couldn't end badly!