I've noticed that, when debating a subject, many people perform web searches for their topic and then provide links to studies... but never bother to fact check or sometimes to even read the links they're providing. A couple examples:

• I was just in a conversation on this site where someone cited a "study" that had 11 sources, and every one of the sources was either misrepresented or was of very little value.

• I once had a debate about car insurance rates, and someone linked a news article whose headline was something like "DEBUNKED MYTH ABOUT"... but the 4th paragraph of the article explicitly stated that the "myth" they were debunking was real, and the entire article was simply pointing out exceptions to the observable trend.

• I've seen another person linking articles on this site that literally performed a Google search, and started linking every result from the top page.

My question is: How many of us read and fact check studies that we cite in a debate?

For my part, I most often "skim", but whenever possible I read the article/study, and check their cited sources.