Is social networking making us stupid?
▻http://phys.org/news/2014-02-social-networking-stupid.html
The team say the results show that whilst social networks helped the volunteers choose better answers [because they can copy from their peers] they didn’t prime them to answer more logically themselves, showing that ’social learning does not seem to help individuals bypass their bias in favour of intuition but rather help society as a whole thrive despite this bias’.