Could search engines be fostering some Dunning-Kruger?
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Many of us make jokes about how we've outsourced part of our brain to electronic devices. But based on a new paper by the University of Texas at Austin's Adrian Ward, this is just a variation on something that has been happening throughout human history. No person could ever learn everything they ne
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- Many of us make jokes about how we've outsourced part of our brain to electronic devices. But based on a new paper by the University of Texas at Austin's Adrian Ward, this is just a variation on something that has been happening throughout human history. No person could ever learn everything they need to know. But that's OK, according to Ward: "No ...
- So, what do we make of this behavior? Ward offers a simple and non-threatening explanation: "If Google answers questions before users can finish searching their own memories, people may never realize that the internal search would have turned up empty." But the consequences could be a bit more problematic, given that the inability to tell the diff...
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