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I mean bright kids. a few other facts about the study. the site, total hoax. there's no such thing as a tree octopus. 49 of these 50 kids believed the site and here's the real kicker. after they were told it was a hoax, about half of the kids insisted the tree octopus existed. based on the site alone. >> base they thought that this site was so authentic and the whole premise behind it just made sense to them and it was on the internet. that's the bottom line, right? >> one of the conclusions that researchers drew from this. is that students are not thinking critically. at least at this particu...

Something on a website, they take it as fact. no matter what. cnn's carlo zeus is here with us. i'm surprised i thought a lot of today's kids were very suspicious. >> if you ask any student, do you believe everything you read on the internet. you'd be very hard-pressed one to find one who is going to say, oh, yeah, it's a knee-jerk programmed reaction, they say no, no, don't believe everything you read. but this study would suggest otherwise, it's about eluszive and completely fictitious, tree octopus. there was a fake website set up before the study was taken. it talks about the pacific north...