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The main point of this comic is that many tech-savvy people may not know much about computers (and certainly don’t automatically know how to do everything someone may want help with). They just have developed an intuition which works in many situations. This intuition is shown here in the form of a diagram. In particular, the chart exposes the computer expert's secret ingredient: trial and error. | The main point of this comic is that many tech-savvy people may not know much about computers (and certainly don’t automatically know how to do everything someone may want help with). They just have developed an intuition which works in many situations. This intuition is shown here in the form of a diagram. In particular, the chart exposes the computer expert's secret ingredient: trial and error. | ||
| − | A {{w|flowchart}} is an organizational tool for showing process flow. A box is an instruction, a diamond indicates a question, and the arrows control the flow from one symbol to another | + | A {{w|flowchart}} is an organizational tool for showing process flow. A box is an instruction, a diamond indicates a question, and the arrows control the flow from one symbol to another. |
The title text is a sad admission that even knowing the procedure for how to fix the problem, many people will not follow it and still call their presumably more tech-savvy children. (In a minority of cases, it may be that the person '''did''' try to follow it, and still ended up at the "Ask someone for help or give up" step.) In this case the father of [[Megan]] calls her to help print the flowchart to put near his computer so he can be the computer wiz... | The title text is a sad admission that even knowing the procedure for how to fix the problem, many people will not follow it and still call their presumably more tech-savvy children. (In a minority of cases, it may be that the person '''did''' try to follow it, and still ended up at the "Ask someone for help or give up" step.) In this case the father of [[Megan]] calls her to help print the flowchart to put near his computer so he can be the computer wiz... | ||
