It may be relevant to say I am 27 before answering.
I think I am on the other side of the spectrum, at least 95% of the time when I have a question, the first thing I do is googling it. Same thing when people say statistics that seem weird or counter-intuitive or when I need to feel more confident about my arguments on a subject. I have noticed however that most of my friends don’t do it. It sometimes annoys people that I consistently check things.
Maybe this has to do with the fact that I am a PhD and used to spending hours researching. However, I was less inclined to search on Google when writing my thesis. By the end of it I found out it was actually a very good starting point to find the most interesting sources, a bit like the way you should start on Wikipedia but not stop there.
I sometimes wonder if this “dependence” is a good thing but, like you, I think the tool is too powerful to forget to use it.
Interesting, but I think you’re way at the tail end of the distribution on this one. I bet I use Google more than 90%+ of people, but still not as much as I should.
Thanks for the interesting post.
It may be relevant to say I am 27 before answering.
I think I am on the other side of the spectrum, at least 95% of the time when I have a question, the first thing I do is googling it. Same thing when people say statistics that seem weird or counter-intuitive or when I need to feel more confident about my arguments on a subject. I have noticed however that most of my friends don’t do it. It sometimes annoys people that I consistently check things.
Maybe this has to do with the fact that I am a PhD and used to spending hours researching. However, I was less inclined to search on Google when writing my thesis. By the end of it I found out it was actually a very good starting point to find the most interesting sources, a bit like the way you should start on Wikipedia but not stop there.
I sometimes wonder if this “dependence” is a good thing but, like you, I think the tool is too powerful to forget to use it.
Interesting, but I think you’re way at the tail end of the distribution on this one. I bet I use Google more than 90%+ of people, but still not as much as I should.