Monday, April 6, 2015

It's Never Too Rely Reason Search Engines

The development of internet access easier for us to find out everything. Just rely on keyword search engines, information needed jiffy obtained.

This ability often make people feel as if he knew everything. In fact, a study proving the nature of "knowingly" Internet users can be misleading. This study and to provide reasons for not rely too much on information from the Internet or a search engine.

Reported KompasTekno, Saturday (04/04/2015) from DigitalTrends, a psychologist from Yale University experiment involving 1000 students to know how the Internet affects the way people think. In one test, there are two groups that were given a series of questions.

"How does the zipper?" as one example of a question. One group was given a link to a search site to find the answer. The other group was given a sheet of paper containing information related to finding jabawan.

As a result, both groups revealed a different answer. They were given a sheet of paper expressed more critical suggests the answer. They combine the information obtained with the intellectual ability.

Meanwhile, a group called sitelinks, raw scan response of the link. This study proves that humans tend to put a high confidence to the information on the internet. As if all of the answers that the source is derived from the virtual domain has the absolute truth.

This is dangerous for the critical thinking skills of the internet generation. According to the study, to find information by searching the web, someone felt smarter.

"It makes users more easily confused when having to combine knowledge with external sources. Users internet more wrong about the information that they know from the internet. It indicates how the human dependence on the internet that is not always true," said Matthew Fisher, one of the researchers.

"With the Internet, the boundaries between what you know and what you think you know, become blurred," he added.

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