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You’re not as smart as you think you are

May 31, 2015 by Archived posts 66 Comments

By Jessica Arciniega |Staff Writer| Are you smarter than a 5th grader? Or better yet, are you smarter than a search engine? Searching online may make you think you’re smarter than you actually are, according to Matthew Fisher, a doctoral student in cognitive psychology at Yale University. People can search just about anything online instantaneously, leading them to believe they learned this knowledge themselves, despite relying on a search engine. “We think the information is leaking into our head, but really the information is stored somewhere else entirely,” said Fisher. Fisher explained that online searchers believe they took the time to search and become knowledgeable with … [Read more...] about You’re not as smart as you think you are

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: bing, Fisher, Google, intelligence, New England Journal of Medicine, perceived intelligence, robots, scholarly sources, search engine, technology, test, Yahoo

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