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by pls2halp 3167 days 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

(I first heard about it through the You Are Not So Smart podcast:https://youarenotsosmart.com/2015/11/25/yanss-063-how-search...)