Study Shows Internet Access Inflates Your Sense of Internal Knowledge

http://gizmodo.com/study-shows-internet-access-inflates-your-sense-of-inte-1694970855

“If you don’t know something, you Google it. Of course you do. But researchers suggest that the digital fast track to knowledge can inflate our sense of how much information is actually stored away in our brain.

Researchers from Yale have carried out experiments to investigate how Internet searching changes the way people rate their own internal knowledge. Using over 1,000 student participants, the team carried out a series of nine different tests that compared participants who used the Internet for knowledge acquisition to those using other means. The results appear to suggest that the use of the Internet boosts perception of knowledge, even when it’s about something unrelated to previous online exploration.”

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Stephen