The Internet: propagating reproductive misconceptions

Ninety-three million Americans search online for health related topics, and “googling” something has become a common phrase within Ammerican society (Weaver, 2003).  However, the results of these searches are riddled with inaccuracies regarding mammalian reproduction. These inaccuracies manifest in the form of misleading photos, male bias, human bias, and incomplete information.  With that in mind, high traffic websites and google were used to showcase how numerous and explicit these reproduction inaccuracies are. To further analyze the situation, the websites were chosen based on their popularity in broad age groups. The first age group was broadly middle school to high school and the second was adults. The learning sites Khan Academy and Britannica as well as youtube were analyzed due to their popularity with students. Adults often use the medical sites Webmd and Medicnet which prompted them to be included.  Google image usage is widespread across all ages so it was imperative to include. Because 95% of people do not go past the first page of search engines and 67% only focus on the first five links, only the first few results on the first page page was taken into account when looking at images and google search results (Jacobson, 2017).