From: Monte Davis 

From Joel Achenbach's weblog:

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Vicki Silvers Gier, a psychologist at Central Missouri State University,
asked a few years ago: What happens when you read material that has been
incompetently highlighted with a yellow marker?

Scientists had already shown that students benefit from highlighting their
own reading material. But Gier and a colleague were the first to show that
students who read material that has been badly highlighted by someone else
(with unimportant words marked and important words not marked) will have
dramatically reduced comprehension -- even if they're warned in advance
that the highlighting will be terrible. "You cannot ignore it,"
she says. "Even when you try to ignore it, it's there."

Scientific conclusion: Stupid people make us dumber.

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You may draw your own conclusions w/r/t Faux News, etc...

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