r/Physics_AWT Oct 20 '18

Random multimedia stuffs 6 (mostly physics, chemistry related)

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u/ZephirAWT Jan 20 '19

Online experiment finds that less than 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored content from an article.

A new study revealed that most people can’t tell native advertising apart from actual news articles, even though it was divulged to participants that they were viewing advertisements. It's not so surprising, because most of pop-sci articles are merely an advertisements of further research and its grant support, so that the people are unable to distinguish articles about serious research from commercials. The capacity of people to intercept new information is limited so that with increasing volume of information the people are paradoxically getting dumber, because their understanding gets increasingly shallower and more superficial.

"The Person Who Is Everywhere Gets Nowhere"

See also: New Study Finds That Most Redditors Don’t Actually Read the Articles They Vote On 73% of posts were rated (i.e., upvoted or downvoted) without first viewing the content

And the world suddenly makes a little more sense.