Literally why most jobs exist that involve just googling a solution. Many people (especially most minorities) can’t just Google a problem and read a solution. They need to be told what to do.
How do you avoid this, short of physically going somewhere to get the info firsthand? If you don't leave your house then you're literally living in the matrix with everything that you know being spoon-fed to you.
You can't. I don't know if it's part of how our brain works or what, but this is behavior that has existed throughout the history of the human race.
Think about all the dumbass superstitions throughout time that are just kind of funny footnotes in history now. If you were alive before the internet, think about all the nonsense people would say that people took for fact when maybe 30 seconds of critical thinking would have determined that it makes zero sense. I'm not saying I've never been guilty of it, but it just appears to be human nature to accept things we're told at face value.
At least back then, going to a library and researching something took a significant amount of effort. People had an excuse to be ignorant. Now we all walk around with the sum total of human knowledge ringing in our pocket, accessible in literally seconds.
What I'm saying is that much of the info on the internet has been pozzed. And even if you restrict your research to peer reviewed papers, you will find bias among the scientists as to what they choose to research, what gets published, how the data is tortured in analysis and what conclusions are presented in the abstract that may contradict the data in the paper. One needs to be an expert in the field to navigate this.
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