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the complexity of [...] two fields

If that is true the world is doomed. Giant Meteor 2016

I... I mean... these fuckers can drive, right? They pilot tonne-weight vehicles, at speed, amongst peers. And some of them are responsible for running the power grid, the government, food production, a bunch of other important stuff. They can hold a conversation with another sapient being, and yet a form with two fields is supposedly too much for their minds to deal with?

I don't buy it.

A 1% conversion rate increase for some companies is worth millions.

No. Some users cannot drive.

My point is that these are intelligent beings, capable of doing all sorts of amazing things.

We can't presume that our users are no more than slavering beasts, incapable of understanding even the simplest things.

Not all people are visual thinkers or have large visual bandwidth.

Also, if asking one question at a time adds a % or two to the user base of something as big as Google, then that's a lot of new users.

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