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by alganet 433 days ago
If you really want total inclusiveness, you should make unintuitive UIs that take the edge off people who have high cognition, making it all exclusively about practice. Force the user to put hours in, no cheating with cognitive fancy symbols. Difficult for everyone.

But that's raising the bar down, isn't it?

If you make something easier, smarter people will get more mileage out of it (either by achieving the same goals with less experience or achieving unexpected goals).

Therefore, the sweet spot lies where someone can practice it enough to perform as good as a "high cognition" person.

I truly don't believe in IQ though. I think it's bullshit and anyone could be smart. To me there's somethibg about _good practice_. Not all hours of experience are the same. The difference, from my perspective, is there.