Ready to be Fooled Again

(Graphic from yale.edu)

Having the world's knowledge at our fingertips has deluded us into thinking that we are smarter than we really are.

Browsing the internet for information gives people a ‘widely inaccurate’ view of their own intelligence and could lead to over-confidence when making decisions, experts warn.

Over-confidence makes people less inclined to dig deeper once they find a plausible answer to a question. If one knows how to play the Google ranking game, it's much easier to manipulate opinion. Of course, it's even better to be in control of the game.

Google is working on a new "algorithm [that] could assign each page a truth score. Pages with a high proportion of false claims would be bumped down in the search results."

I have complete faith in Google to determine that the pages at the top of my searches are more truthful than pages further down.

April Fool!