Linux study, finds that relying on MS kills critical thinking skills. π
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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Microsoft said it so I guess it must be true then π€·ββοΈ
The definition of critical thinking is not relying on only one source. Next rain will make you wet keep tuned.
How many phone numbers do you know off of the top of your head?
In the 90s, my mother could rattle off 20 or more.
But they're all in her phone now. Are luddites going to start abandoning phones because they're losing the ability to remember phone numbers? No, of course not.
Either way, these fancy prediction engines have better critical thinking skills than most of the flesh and bone people I meet every day to begin with. The world might actually be smarter on average if they didn't open their mouths.
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It was already soooooo dead out there that I doubt they considered this systematic properly in the study...
The same could be said about people who search for answers anywhere on the internet, or even the world, and donβt have some level of skepticism about their sources of information.
Itβs more like, not having critical thinking skills perpetuates a lack of critical thinking skills.
Yeah, if you repeated this test with the person having access to a stack exchange or not you'd see the same results. Not much difference between someone mindlessly copying an answer from stack overflow vs copying it from AI. Both lead to more homogeneous answers and lower critical thinking skills.
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Well no shit Sherlock.