[jacobolus]

Did anyone really expect 6–9 year-olds to be giant searchers? 6-year-olds have only been reading for a couple of years, and are still mostly on picture books, many reading aloud. Are they supposed to be typing complex text-based queries into google to turn up mostly more text content?

[scott_s]

Two points. One, as I pointed out elsewhere, the study was not on searching the internet, but on searching websites.

Two - and I'm sorry to pick on you because others are doing it - you're in real danger of hindsight bias here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/