Important Questions: What are their sources?

  1. Who is presenting this information?
  2. Important Questions
  3. What are the stated facts?

If they don’t present sources, chances are good that the information is either made up, or twists the source material to an extent that it might as well be.

How do these sources stand in the professional community? Make sure you understand which professional community applies. “They’re both doctors” applies to any profession. You wouldn’t ask a podiatrist about heart disease. Even though they’re both doctors. Should you trust a computer programmer about computer security? Should you trust a computer security professional about computer programming?

Which one is going to understand Y2K, for example? What kind of a problem is Y2K?

1. Where did this information originate from?

2. How much competent review has this information seen?

3. How does this affect the reliability of the information?

  1. Who is presenting this information?
  2. Important Questions
  3. What are the stated facts?