alt Hacker NewsNo. It is a well established fact that the majority of users will not read documentation of any kind. This is not a new observation, it's been a meme in developer circles from the first day computers showed up in the workplace.
You can step off your high horse now.
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socalgal2 • today at 5:21 PM
In my defense. (1) I can't find the docs (2) I can't find the relevant docs (3) after having read several irrelevant docs they still don't answer my question but the question I need answering isn't actually in the docs.
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It's not just docs too, it seems to be some general phenomenon that users don't read most anything on screen.
This is from almost 20 years ago [0] and the original stretches back almost 30 years now [1].
[0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-little-do-users-read/
[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-users-read-on-the-web/