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Why do some people ask questions on Quora that could easily be answered by using a search engine?

I have wondered if these are children asking or if there is an altruistic effort to ask simple things so everyone has an opportunity to answer a question.
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tynamite
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I'm going to quote my answer.

Because people can't be bothered to use Google. Technology is the new religion that gives us all the answers
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It's just how Microsoft Word made people worse at spelling when it came out. Why think, when the computer will do all the thinking for you?

We've gone from using Google to search for information; to using Siri and Quora to reverse the search. Instead of learning how to use Google properly, we can ask all our obvious questions here, and have the information come to us.

Reversing the search.
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What's an assertion, and what should I type in?

Compesh is a question and answer (and debate) website, so before you make a debate, you better learn what an assertion is. I suppose you already know what a question is, and that you've typed it in the box. ;)

An assertion, is basically a statement you can make, that is either true or false.

Richer people have better health.

The question for that would be, Do richer people have better health?

And don't forget to make your assertion, match your question.

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