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The Internet Makes You Think You’re Smarter Than You Are
- drallison 11y agoThe research can be found at http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-0000070.pdf http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-0000070.pdf and may or may not be thought to support the cited interview. The authors see the Internet as a transactive memory proxy for a human partner and then worry about what happens if the Internet is not available. Their results suggest that the use of Internet searches, not just access to the Internet, inflates participants’ sense of personal knowledge.