Not necessarily directly. But perhaps indirectly, like how reading a useful novel or non-fiction book can help channel your thinking later.

In other words, reading the piece might not alter your behavior today and you might forget 98% of it if quizzed later, but next time you're presented with a decision to which it applies, you find yourself behaving somewhat more wisely than you would have if you hadn't consumed these articles.

Maybe. Or maybe these articles are no more useful than reading the backs of shampoo bottles. Tough to measure.