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I found these bullet points from the article pretty insightful: > - Reading was significantly faster online than in print. > - Students judged their comprehen

I found these bullet points from the article pretty insightful: > - Reading was significantly faster online than in print. > - Students judged their comprehension as better online than in print. > - Paradoxically, overall comprehension was better for print versus digital reading. So with digital reading, you feel like you've learned more than print, but you've actually learned less. This seems pretty dangerous.

Mindless2112 9y ago
> This seems pretty dangerous. It sounds pretty much like the Internet as a whole.
- pls2halp 9y ago
  On the note of the internet as a whole displaying this, there was a study a while ago which found "searching the Internet for explanatory knowledge creates an illusion whereby people mistake access to information for their own personal understanding of the information." http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/xge0000070 http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/xge0000070 (I first heard about it through the You Are Not So Smart podcast:https://youarenotsosmart.com/2015/11/25/yanss-063-how-search-engines-make-us-feel-smarter-than-we-really-are/ https://youarenotsosmart.com/2015/11/25/yanss-063-how-search...)