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context: The amount of people who just read an article's title... never even the whole article... let alone never trace it back to primary source documents. And THEN on top of it, they go on social media and spread what they read like it's the gospel truth. It drives me effing insane. >
  
  OMG!!! You are so right!!! I forgot to add that!!! >
  
  Oh, I hate it so much. It's gone on for years and on both sides of the political spectrum. >
  
  I completely agree. I have noticed, depending on what I actually say, I am either a snowflake or a conservative. It's like pick one. I'm obviously not both. >
  
  You're never gonna be liberal "enough" or conservative "enough" for some. They need you to agree with each and every talking point of the most stereotypical representative of their movement. >
  
  Internet searches aren’t research, and the fact that OP thinks that their internet searches are research makes me scared that they vote. >
  
  That isn't what I said so thank you for proving my point. >
  
  Or if you are using Google Scholar, that links peer reviewed, first hand, scholarly articles and essays, which is awesome when you don't have paid access to JSTOR. >
  
  You still you have to know what journal articles are actually valuable. You have to understand things like statistics, sample sizes, what it means when someone has a potential conflict, etc.
  They teach classes in just this topic alone which should tell you something. >
  
  I mean, if you want to get Burkean on it, sure. I'm just saying that we have more access than people like to admit. >
  
  Totally agree, seems like a popular enough opinion, so downvote. >
  
  I only think it is unpopular do the amount of downsvotes i have seen (I'm not counting me personally although it has happened to me) gotten for simply stating factual information. >
  
  Yep. Research methodology should be mandatory curriculum starting in middle school all the way up through senior year. >
  
  Yep. I will use academic articles and studies as evidence, while other people are like "hurr durr here's a the guardian article from 10 years ago" >
  
  i only research stuff on the sonic universe >
  
  Actual research is taking multiple sources and cross referencing data to find valid information and potentially biased information. Using a single source achieves nothing as theres likely a source which contradicts what you originally took as fact.
  Bias generally exists no matter where you look, sometimes it's not personal bias, instead it's just group bias where you chose a group of people that may not best reflect the statistics you're trying to assess.