Different strokes for different folks

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Originally Posted by updraught

With a video you can gain skills real quick.

People build their own house now by using YouTube videos alone.

They wouldn't have attempted it years ago.

Forums and feedback on the internet were designed to accommodate false information from the beginning. Hopefully, the correct stuff will out weigh the incorrect stuff.
That's the way it was designed. It's a feature!

Most people who started a restoration in the 60's and 70's had no idea how much effort it would take. Probably most never got finished. That was due to a lack of information.

Based on my own experiences here in the States, the visual learning gives the confidence to begin a project however common sense is usually lacking soon thereafter. In my line of work I get a ton of e-mail & phone calls asking how to do a task on their Model-A. There are generally two common denominators in these situations with one being they have watched or read something on-line, ...and they lack reasoning skills to figure it out on their own. Imagine receiving a call wanting to take a wheel off but they are unsure which direction to twist the lug nut. If you ask them which way they have tried, they tell you both ways but the more you talk with them, you soon realize they really haven't tried either direction and they are calling because they don't want to screw it up and they read that some old cars had lug nuts that twisted off differently.

The next issue that is commonplace in which we are seeing in the workforce here is people lack the motor skills to get their fingers to do what their brain is telling them. There are WAY more skills needed to do a task correctly than can be learned watching a video. Folks can watch every TIG welding video on YouTube and still lack the ability to strike an arc successfully. It takes years of experience (-starting as a kid) to master eye-to-brain-to-hand skills. It takes those same skills to know how to drive a nail when building a house. YouTube videos can show the mechanics of driving that nail, but they cannot teach the person how to hit the head of the nail repeatedly.