What would our lives be without Google? Mostly, we’d feel a lot less intelligent, say Yale researchers. Searching the Internet, their new study finds, creates the illusion that access to online information is our own real knowledge. Sadly, the nine psychological experiments they conducted more than adequately prove we consistently mistake search results for our own internal knowledge.
“Searching for information online is an extremely important skill and it’s a powerful way to gain new insight. Our research is showing a tradeoff,” Matthew Fisher, lead author of the study and a fourth year graduate student at Yale’s Cognition and Development Lab, wrote Medical Daily in an email. “People end up thinking that the information stored online is information they know themselves.”
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