Googling has, arguably, made Millennials less able...

“Googling has, arguably, made Millennials less able than any previous group of twentysomethings to retain information. Recent research suggests that they use Google as a sort of auxiliary memory. In 2011 a team of psychologists led by Betsy Sparrow of Columbia gave 60 undergrads a bunch of trivia (on the order of “an ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain”) and asked them to type all forty factoids into a computer. Half were told that the file containing these facts would be accessible later; half were told the file would be erased. On a subsequent test of memory, the ones who thought everything would be erased remembered much more. When they believed their document would be saved, Sparrow found, they didn’t bother remembering it; they figured they could always find it (or, as it’s called outside the lab, Google it) when they needed to.”

— Does Constant Googling Really Make You Stupid? [Excerpt]: Scientific American (via infoneer-pulse)
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Source: scientificamerican.com
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  I’d like to add that Einstein is credited as saying “Never memorize what you can look up in a book.” That now extends to...
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