Originally Posted by West Lakes
Yep
The age of people using.having common sense has gone
The age of people being allowed to use common sense has gone in a lot of cases
So in most cases procedures are put in place to allow for the lowest common denominator.
Fortunately in the industry I work in, I am able to regularly and with success argue against this sort of systematic dumbing down. One of the Golden Rules of systems design: don't degrade the system for the 95% of people who aren't morons to cope with the 5% who are; educate the morons or exclude them.
That one of my larger clients is an online insurance company certainly helps - after all, they don't actually want to insure morons, so it's a nice bit of self-selection!
