![]() ![]() His team, known as the Stanford History Education Group, has given scores of subjects such tasks in hopes of answering two of the most vexing questions of the Internet age: Why are even the smartest among us so bad at making judgments about what to trust on the web? And how can we get better? ![]() The bookish professor had been asked to assess the article as part of an experiment run by Stanford University psychologist Sam Wineburg. It has been accused of promoting antigay policies, and the Southern Poverty Law Center designates it as a hate group. What the professor never realized as he focused on the page’s superficial features is that the group in question is a socially conservative splinter faction that broke in 2002 from the mainstream American Academy of Pediatrics over the issue of adoption by same-sex couples.
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