Series | Critical Thinking in the Age of Digital Incredulity, Pt. 3

The Search Engine Fallacy

How a Good Netizen Avoids Confirmation Bias

Christopher Kirby, PhD
5 min readOct 13, 2021

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“Google Classic: Please Allow 30 Days for your Search Results (Original artist unknown) #Google” by dullhunk is licensed with CC BY 2.0.

Have you ever tried diagnosing your symptoms online only to be left TOTALLY FREAKING OUT that you might have cancer?

Yeah, me too.

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Christopher Kirby, PhD

Father, husband, son, brother, philosopher, life-long student. Professional site at: https://www.christopher-c-kirby.com/