Admittedly I am not an avid Facebook user. But, on the few occasions I have dipped into some articles posted by a connection, I've often been left wondering: Why on Earth did they repost this?

Most of my friend connections on Facebook are what I would describe as intelligent and able to critically evaluate the accuracy of a "politically" based article. This is why I have found myself (on several occasions) dumbstruck by some of the content they have reposted.

Now it seems that one possible reason may be that they don’t read beyond the headline.

In a recent study, researchers concluded that only in one case out of every........

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