[DoughtyOne]

Doing your own research is a good way to end up being wrong

Even if it is 100% less likely to be wrong than believing
the WP.

[DoodleBob]

Our findings highlight the need for media literacy efforts combatting the effects of misinformation to ground their recommendations in empirically tested interventions, as well as search engines to invest in solutions to the challenges identified here. For example, recent developments in the space—such as the expansion of teaching lateral reading strategies and Google’s warning when no credible information is available for given search queries44—are interesting steps in this direction and deserve further testing.

We are gonna trust Academics and Google? ALL HAIL…

Authority bias is the tendency to attribute greater accuracy to the opinion of an authority figure (unrelated to its content) and be more influenced by that opinion. An individual is more influenced by the opinion of this authority figure, believing their views to be more credible, and hence place greater emphasis on the authority figure's viewpoint and are more likely to obey them. This concept is considered one of the social cognitive biases or collective cognitive biases.

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