• May 7, 2024

The mere fact of using a search engine makes people think they are more smart and they know everything, even the issues that are not related to the question they found out, affirms a new investigation.

Internet searches give people the delusion of personal knowledge, even though in fact they have not acquired any, "he says. Matthew Fisher of the Yale University and author of the study.

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This conclusion derives from a series of nine experiments, each of which examined the way in which to look for things in Internet , Google specifically, affects the confidence of people in their abilities intellectuals .

One of the exercises consisted in the participants looking for questions simple, such as "how does a zipper work?", and then they were asked to answer various questions about the knowledge they had acquired and other issues.

In sum, the researchers discovered that the people who used the seeker to find out the specific questions they felt much more confident of being able reply other issues with greater precision.

Moreover, the participants had an overrated sense of their knowledge and the superior activity of his brain even when they could not find the information they sought.

Searching the internet can cause a systemic failure to recognize the extent to which we rely on external knowledge. When people are on their own they can be very vague in how much they know and how dependent they are on the network, "Fisher says.

The researchers indicate that this phenomenon can be derived from what they call "Transactive memory systems", which is when people form research groups so they divide what they have to to learn and so they do not need to know everything.

People end up believing that the information stored online is what they know for themselves, without help. A consequence of this may be that people do not recognize the gaps in their own knowledge, "the author adds.

This is worrisome because it means that people are more likely to overestimate their knowledge in situations where it is really important that they know what they are talking about.

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