A Canadian study has suggested that the Internet may be affecting the way that we think, with people less likely to say they know the answer to something when they have access to the Web.
In their analysis the team of researchers, from the University of Waterloo, asked a group of 96 participants general knowledge questions, and asked participants to indicate if they knew the answer or not.
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