Have a theory about why people can be reluctant to google. It may be excessively bitter.
To a large extent (especially for neurotypical people, though it seems to depend on the subject) learning is an unconscious process. The result is that people don’t know how they learned and don’t know how to teach.
What’s more, people are apt to want to just get things done and also apt to have punishment as an easy strategy. So they shame people for not knowing what they are supposed to have picked up somehow.
This means that googling indicates that you didn’t know something already, so googling means getting past an emotional barrier.
That’s certainly not the only thing that’s going on. I think asking questions as socializing is a thing, and so is not realizing the amazing scope of what can be searched for. And for some of us, just being old enough that the habit of googling didn’t get developed.
I’m a frequent and pretty habitual googler, and I’ve mostly stopped calling it “living in the future”.
1) This strikes me as an honest attempt at world modeling. 2) I don’t share the viewpoint but I think it meets the bar of being plausibly true. 3) Given the intended content, I don’t think it was written in an excessively bitter tone at all.
Using the criteria of “I want to see more/less of this” that the FAQ recommends for voting, I want to see more comments like this. I worry that currently, people are fearful about coming across as too bitter and it gets in the way of honest attempts at world modeling.
Have a theory about why people can be reluctant to google. It may be excessively bitter.
To a large extent (especially for neurotypical people, though it seems to depend on the subject) learning is an unconscious process. The result is that people don’t know how they learned and don’t know how to teach.
What’s more, people are apt to want to just get things done and also apt to have punishment as an easy strategy. So they shame people for not knowing what they are supposed to have picked up somehow.
This means that googling indicates that you didn’t know something already, so googling means getting past an emotional barrier.
That’s certainly not the only thing that’s going on. I think asking questions as socializing is a thing, and so is not realizing the amazing scope of what can be searched for. And for some of us, just being old enough that the habit of googling didn’t get developed.
I’m a frequent and pretty habitual googler, and I’ve mostly stopped calling it “living in the future”.
Meta: Upvoted to counteract downvotes.
1) This strikes me as an honest attempt at world modeling. 2) I don’t share the viewpoint but I think it meets the bar of being plausibly true. 3) Given the intended content, I don’t think it was written in an excessively bitter tone at all.
Using the criteria of “I want to see more/less of this” that the FAQ recommends for voting, I want to see more comments like this. I worry that currently, people are fearful about coming across as too bitter and it gets in the way of honest attempts at world modeling.