People who grew up with Wikipedia seem far better informed than their intellectual/personality peers from older gens at same age.
Jevons paradox. They know more *because* they can look up anything. No curiosity left unsatisfied.
I’d estimate a 10y advantage in factual knowledge
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Hoo boy do I radically disagree. It utterly depends on what kind of knowledge you’re talking about. Because there’s lots that’s not on the internet, but the cult of the internet makes people think it contains everything.
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Clearly I have smarter millennial friends than you 😀
Sure there’s some availability bias but that’s true of all media. Academic western libraries have their own biases.
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Obviously all archives & data sources have their limitations. But the peril of the Internet isn't just that it makes people more heavily weigh their judgments toward the latest news & information; it's also that the myth of the Net is that it's the only data source anyone needs.
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Disagree. I have met more library supremacists than Internet supremacists. More people who turn up noses at anything more recent than 100 years than news-only types who don’t read books (not counting those who always only read the news).

