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Originally Posted by gemniii42 View Post
Most of us are male.
From several sources of rules for men:
"Christopher Columbus did not need directions, and neither do we"

Most of us only read all the documentation if we think there is a good chance that somewhere it will say forget all the rest of the instructions.
I'm a man, but I'm also a geek. One of the rules for geeks is:
Read documentation:
  • obsessively
  • in proportion to technicality
    ---and---
  • in inverse proportion to practical utility
Yeah, it drives some people near to me mad. They give me a nice present, and I spend a half-hour in the manual before I finish unpacking it. (If the manual contained assembly instructions, I skimmed them, or skipped entirely, but I know how to reconfigure, rebuild, or anything else.)