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Is there a name for the effect, or at least percieved effect, that people are becoming less "teachable" because we're so used to just googling stuff that we sometimes percieve ourselves as a fount of knowledge because we mistakenly attribute all the answers to ourselves and not the little gadget in our pocket?

I don't think the Flynn effect is applicable.

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I would love to know if any research is being done on this. On a comedic note, Bill Burr refers to it as the "www.IAmRight.com effect", where people develop absurd opinions and then just Google sources to support their opinions (rather than the other way around, where they would begin with sources and form a logical opinion from there).

This remind me of something I learned in high school while doing my math homework. An assignment becomes much easier when you first look at the answer in the back. When you know what to aim for, it's easier to weave the right path from the data to results. You aren't learning much in the process, but technically, you've done the job.

Even better, when you're doing particularly 'wordy' calculations with many many greek letters where one line goes over two actual lines one the paper, you can start from both ends and just drop a little here and add a little there until you have woven them together (if you cannot get it done properly). Chances are good that whoever corrects it won't notice..

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