The problem with the internet is that whatever you're googling about, there's at least one person on the internet who has tried it and had it go horribly wrong. And then they post about it, loudly, dramatically, and without quite the information you need. ("Whatever you do, don't use Acme Widgets! They'll ruin your life!" Um, okay, but how exactly?)
But the problem is we have no way to figure out how common it is for that thing to go horribly wrong, or how many people tried the thing and it went so unremarkably smoothly that it never occurred to them to write about it on the internet.
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We were just talking about this, in relation to getting health/medical info on line.
The horribly-wrongers skew the whole sample.
You'll always find way more people complaining and freaking out than saying "that was cool". Eg, if you tried a medication and it worked like a charm, you're much less likely to share this information than if you tried the drug and all your hair fell out.
But what percentage of the whole are those three people who are now bald?
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