People Mistake the Internet’s Knowledge For Their Own

"In the current digital age, people are constantly connected to online information. The present research provides evidence that on-demand access to external information, enabled by the internet and search engines like Google, blurs the boundaries between internal and external knowledge, causing people to believe they could—or did—remember what they actually just found. Using Google to … Continue reading People Mistake the Internet’s Knowledge For Their Own

52 Things [Tom Whitwell] Learned in 2021

"4. 10% of US electricity is generated from old Russian nuclear warheads. [Geoff Brumfiel]43. Privacy seems to be connected to productivity. An experiment in a phone factory showed that putting curtains round workers on a production line increased output by 10–15%. [Ethan Bernstein via Ethan Mollick]52. A study of 14,000 Australians over 14 years found … Continue reading 52 Things [Tom Whitwell] Learned in 2021