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A new study finds that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to use Google. Oh yeah, and rich people are better at spotting suspect information while poor people believe just about anything they read on the intarweb.

The study, published in the March/April issue of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, finds that wealthy, educated Americans are more capable of identifying untrustworthy information about child-rearing on the Internet than poor, uneducated Americans.
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True. Uneducated people just eat up everything on the TV without actually researching on the internet.
 
Is this any different from smart people being wealthier? Smart people tend to manage their finances better therefore they have more money. The idea that wealthy/smart people are more likely to use google doesn't seem to have any correlation other than actually owning a computer and having internet access.
 
Hrmm...makes me wonder what exactly happend to my bank account then if I am supposed to be in this "high socioeconomic group", damn hackers must have stole all my money or something, guess I will have to Google it up to find out.

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not surprising, especialy for those few who actualy used advanced search parameter functions in google that dont work in other search engines.. I particularly use exclusionary parameters a lot... like when I search for book reviews and want to avoid sales sites.. like recently I wanted to read more reviews than whats on amazon about some of Clive Barker's books that I became interested in after beating the new Jericho game, and I didnt want to read neither reviews of his PC games, nor reviews of books I wasnt looking for, nor reviews for his Hellraiser movies or myspace postings. My google searchbar looked like a full paragraph...

My google entry looked like: Clive Barker -hellraiser, -jericho, -myspace, -wikipedia, -interview, -comics, -art, +book, +review

Google is a really powerful tool.
 
Interesting, I would have thought opposite.
 
Anarchist4000 said:
Is this any different from smart people being wealthier? Smart people tend to manage their finances better therefore they have more money.
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You need to define "smart". There are tons of smart people with not a penny in the bank.
 
Steve said:
A new study finds that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to use Google. Oh yeah, and rich people are better at spotting suspect information while poor people believe just about anything they read on the intarweb.
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Just wow... I really hate things that sit here and talk about how "rich" people are better at blah blah blah and how smart people are blah blah blah.

Shouldnt people use this money to fund these useless studies instead put it to things that would be more helpful? O wait I forgot ... what would you RIch and smart people do without some more gratification and back patting
 
Which means their readers will believe it!

I think you could drop the rich part. I tend to think the only actually important conditional is the education level. The associated income is probably a by product not a necessary property.

We need another study on the educated poor! Quick someone run out and test all those post graduates working at Starbucks.:eek:
 
article abstract said:
This research examines socio-economic status (SES) differences in parents' Web use, skills, and satisfaction. A total of 120
parents were interviewed about their use of the Web to find child and family information, and they provided feedback as they
searched for information online. Findings indicate that the higher the SES level (a) the greater the use of the Web; (b) the more
sophisticated the search skills (e.g., selecting one's own search engine rather than relying on a default; changing keywords); and
(c) the greater the skills in evaluation (e.g., emphasizing the credibility of the sponsoring organization). In contrast to the digital
divide inWeb use and skills, there was no evidence of greater satisfaction among higher SES parents. These findings have implications
for programs to assure that all parents have access to relevant and trustworthy online information pertaining to their children.
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FWIW, here's the abstract... seems that someone generalized the article a bit.
 
This reminds me of the blue hippo pc deal on tv.

Bad credit? No problem! Just pay us 19.99 out of your checking acount every week for 500 months. You can't lose!
 
stoney_titan said:
This reminds me of the blue hippo pc deal on tv.

Bad credit? No problem! Just pay us 19.99 out of your checking acount every week for 500 months. You can't lose!
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But see the reason why rich people dont do that is because they can afford to go out and buy the comp right off the shelf and have the cash up front. Poor people have a tougher time getting that kind of cash all at once so use stuff like that.
 
watertown28 said:
But see the reason why rich people dont do that is because they can afford to go out and buy the comp right off the shelf and have the cash up front. Poor people have a tougher time getting that kind of cash all at once so use stuff like that.
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Dude, the reason rich people don't do that, is because (in this scenario) it comes out to costing $9,995 :eek:. I know (hope at least) that this example was a bit exaggerated, but usually a financing option like this is not in the consumers best interest regardless of income status.

I really don't think this survey showed much of anything though. I wonder what would happen if they surveyed the rich stupid people, or the smart poor people. Probably the same result, the "smart" people use google.
 
Steve said:
A new study finds that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to use Google.
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I'll join the "Duuhh..." consensus :rolleyes:

Only people interested in education are going to um, well, educate themselves. I hate useless research. This jackass is just collecting grant money. Apparently the funders of this research aren't very intelligent, although they may be very much educated. Of course money rules all so there must have been a profitable reason for this research.

Oh yeah, and rich people are better at spotting suspect information while poor people believe just about anything they read on the intarweb.
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I'll assume you're being facetious...

Here in Portland, poor kids (or anyone) can go to http://freegeek.org/ build a few machines in a couple of weekend workshops and eventually take a decent internet surfing pc home for free with linux installed. No one likes dial up but it's practically free if you just deal with trial accounts through different ISPs.

Without distraction of games and lightening fast internet those same kids will be the next PHP/MySQL guru making good money.
 
watertown28 said:
But see the reason why rich people dont do that is because they can afford to go out and buy the comp right off the shelf and have the cash up front. Poor people have a tougher time getting that kind of cash all at once so use stuff like that.
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And they're usually poor because they're making payments on everything else already... and half the stuff they didn't need in the first place. There's free computers at schools or the public library. Buy a Toyota Corolla and pay it off instead stretching to buy a Camaro or worse, a 10 year old BMW or Mercedes that's going to need expensive repairs. Use birth control if you can't afford to have a kid. If you can't afford/get birth control, don't have sex.

Poor people are generally people that live in the moment.

They're the guys that were out having fun while I was studying. The people I worked with at Subway that spent their money on a flashy car while my money went to college tuition. They're the girls that wouldn't give me a second look because I wasn't "gangster" enough for them. They enjoyed the excitement and drama of a "bad boy"... except part of being bad is the guy They got gangster and they also got a kid before he left. Now they're struggling financially trying to raise a kid as a single Mom. And how about the guy standing on the corner begging for money? I'd be fucking poor too if all I did was stand around.
 
watertown28 said:
Just wow... I really hate things that sit here and talk about how "rich" people are better at blah blah blah and how smart people are blah blah blah.

Shouldnt people use this money to fund these useless studies instead put it to things that would be more helpful? O wait I forgot ... what would you RIch and smart people do without some more gratification and back patting
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i find alot of "rich" people to be clueless when it comes to anything outside of what they do to make their money, basic things like, oh, how to do laundry.... cook a meal....most anything related to computers or even cars....

"smart" is a broad word and really cant apply here, i am smarter then my CEO in technical area's, but he has more money then me......
 
MrGuvernment said:
i find alot of "rich" people to be clueless when it comes to anything outside of what they do to make their money, basic things like, oh, how to do laundry.... cook a meal....most anything related to computers or even cars....

"smart" is a broad word and really cant apply here, i am smarter then my CEO in technical area's, but he has more money then me......
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The smart people are the ones who get other people to make their money for them ;)
 
rabident said:
And they're usually poor because they're making payments on everything else already... and half the stuff they didn't need in the first place. There's free computers at schools or the public library. Buy a Toyota Corolla and pay it off instead stretching to buy a Camaro or worse, a 10 year old BMW or Mercedes that's going to need expensive repairs. Use birth control if you can't afford to have a kid. If you can't afford/get birth control, don't have sex.

Poor people are generally people that live in the moment.

They're the guys that were out having fun while I was studying. The people I worked with at Subway that spent their money on a flashy car while my money went to college tuition. They're the girls that wouldn't give me a second look because I wasn't "gangster" enough for them. They enjoyed the excitement and drama of a "bad boy"... except part of being bad is the guy They got gangster and they also got a kid before he left. Now they're struggling financially trying to raise a kid as a single Mom. And how about the guy standing on the corner begging for money? I'd be fucking poor too if all I did was stand around.
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Wow and I bet you still dont get laid ater going to college and doing whatever with your life. I think you need a therapist to really get all of this off your chest. WOOOOO SSAAAAAAA!
 
Dude, the reason rich people don't do that, is because (in this scenario) it comes out to costing $9,995 .
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You see thats where they get you Yahoo/MSN users. Us Googlers can clearly see the math works out to $43,225.00 :p
 
This has nothing to do with money.

Educated people are better at spotting bogus arguments and questionable information. It's a side effect of getting a decent education. Educated people also tend to have higher incomes.

There are educated people that are not rich, and they are no less adept at this.

The bogosity of this study is that they confuse education with wealth.

So it's not that "rich" people trust reputable sources and distrust quackery. It's that educated people trust one and uneducated people trust the other.

-Ian
 
DemonDiablo said:
Wow and I bet you still dont get laid ater going to college and doing whatever with your life. I think you need a therapist to really get all of this off your chest. WOOOOO SSAAAAAAA!
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Seriously, I don't think I've ever read a post that screamed of sexual repression more than that.
 
What about people (who at the time were in their teens) said -- Hey Google is everything I want in a search engine -- just a damn search box.

I'm one of those people, but I did file an unusually high (for my age/state/education level) tax return last year.
 
And one more thing, I don't understand how someone can not have $500 for a computer.

I simply, plain fucking don't understand it.

BlueHippo, FingerHut, PeoplePC LOL
 
Luthorcrow said:
Which means their readers will believe it!

I think you could drop the rich part. I tend to think the only actually important conditional is the education level. The associated income is probably a by product not a necessary property.

We need another study on the educated poor! Quick someone run out and test all those post graduates working at Starbucks.:eek:
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Damned liberal arts majors...
 
kent said:
And one more thing, I don't understand how someone can not have $500 for a computer.

I simply, plain fucking don't understand it.

BlueHippo, FingerHut, PeoplePC LOL
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because their financial priorities dont allow for it, or they have other priorites in life.....

$500 is alot of money to ALOT of people......
 
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