Here's an interesting 10 minute video from TED that shows how a lot of search engines taylor their results to what we've previously searched for. This kind of personalized search is good in many ways, but the downside is that we often only get to see what the search engines think we want to see, so we wind up seeing things that confirm our prior beliefs. Could make for a good discussion on confirmation bias:
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. [email protected] http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=10770 or send a blank email to leave-10770-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
