"another possibility is that the headlines get the causal order wrong. It could be that a (pre-existing) inclination to reason less effortfully leads some people to use their smartphones to search for information more often. On this view, smartphone usage is the symptom, not the cause, of lazy thinking.
Or, it could be that heavy reliance on smartphones and poor performance on reflective reasoning tasks have a common cause, but not the one tested by the researchers (susceptibility to boredom). It could be, for example, that some people are less effective when it comes to figuring out the most efficient or reliable approach to answering some questions. As a result, they rely too heavily on intuition when faced with tricky reasoning tasks, and too heavily on their smartphones when it comes to seeking information."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2015/03/09/391797518/easy-knowledge-can-be-a-dangerous-thing-maybe
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