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Table 1. Trust in and Reliability of Sources

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Internet: Confidence in selection and cross-checks

Um, probably cross reference it with something else. ...and so see if the same sort of thing is in another trusted source.

...a lot of times when you go on the internet you just find someone's opinion, not fact.

But I know how to like [find] education ones and everything--I know. You can tell when a site's all right.

Internet: Lack of trust

Cause you don't know who's written most of the stuff on the internet. [They could be] making it up.

Yeah, I probably trusted the books more because on the internet you don't know what's right and what's wrong.

Books: Trust in non-fiction

...books are more factual I find. ... At least you know then that they've kind of been approved by the public and that, or otherwise it wouldn't be, even been published type thing.

They're written by people that have also studied it over a long period and wrote a whole book on it ...

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