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Discussion on: What was your most frustrating experience dealing with "non-technical" people?

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I'm most bothered by non-technical types that are convinced they cannot understand technical content. That is, despite visuals, analogies, metaphors, or whatever presenting a programing problem in a non-technical way some people continue to insist they can't understand it because it's too technical. Fortunately I've only ever met a couple such people.

I meet a lot of people that are afraid to try things on a computer. They end up getting blocked because they don't just go in and play around with menus, settings, options, etc. It's perhaps made worse by technical people constantly telling them not to screw up their machine!