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CDC - Center for Disease Control

15% (5)

WHO - World Health Organization

9% (3)

House/Senate bills passed

9% (3)

House/Senate bills in committee

9% (3)

Foreign/Domestic Constitutions

9% (3)

Vehicle Codes

3% (1)

Local/State/Federal laws

6% (2)

Congressional Voting records

6% (2)

OED- Oxford English Dictionary

15% (5)

CBO - Congressional Budget Office

15% (5)

Total Votes : 32

(last vote on : 4/10/2017 6:42:53 PM)
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BitaTruble -> Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 10:18:07 AM)
I consider all of these valid sources which I use to vet and fact check. If I cannot use these sources then the subject is probably trivial to my grand scheme and anecdotes will do. There are more sources but poll limits set the number at 10 options. Evidence should be up there..DNA, finger prints, audits. I will use Snopes for more blatant scams and such and religious/philosophical text when the discussion is in areas relevant to those texts. I don't use wiki, blogs, talking heads or hearsay. I dont care much about news/whose..I care about facts though and I am generally good at hunting down the nitty gritty. Who do you go to when you are fact checking or vetting? You guys know I do my homework - the poll consists of my chosen textbooks from which to study. Feel free to join any or all of the study groups I have listed or share your own. I am interested in hearing from other folks who also do their own homework. Multiple choices are available.

WhoreMods -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 10:32:31 AM)
I like the OED myself, but that has certain limits as a resource about current events. I favour the WHO over the CDC (who seem to be even more of a joke than the EPA since the election from most of what I've read about them), and it's nice to see that you can check a senator's voting record if you want to.

WickedsDesire -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 10:37:44 AM)
BBC and WIKI - as guides.

WinsomeDefiance -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 10:45:10 AM)
Some of those on occasion. If I'm really curious, I will log in to the University and search out peer-reviewed papers, articles etc.

BitaTruble -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 11:31:04 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: WhoreMods I like the OED myself, but that has certain limits as a resource about current events. I favour the WHO over the CDC (who seem to be even more of a joke than the EPA since the election from most of what I've read about them), and it's nice to see that you can check a senator's voting record if you want to. Anyone here can check voting records (and when our elected officials are absent and don't actually vote) on any bill. You guys can't check your officials like that? On what they do..not on just what they say?

BamaD -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 11:38:02 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: WhoreMods I like the OED myself, but that has certain limits as a resource about current events. I favour the WHO over the CDC (who seem to be even more of a joke than the EPA since the election from most of what I've read about them), and it's nice to see that you can check a senator's voting record if you want to. Since the election?

Lucylastic -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 11:42:27 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BamaD quote: ORIGINAL: WhoreMods I like the OED myself, but that has certain limits as a resource about current events. I favour the WHO over the CDC (who seem to be even more of a joke than the EPA since the election from most of what I've read about them), and it's nice to see that you can check a senator's voting record if you want to. Since the election? You havent noticed how many government websites have been stripped of data? And now stripped of regulations? well that figures.

WhoreMods -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 11:42:52 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BitaTruble quote: ORIGINAL: WhoreMods I like the OED myself, but that has certain limits as a resource about current events. I favour the WHO over the CDC (who seem to be even more of a joke than the EPA since the election from most of what I've read about them), and it's nice to see that you can check a senator's voting record if you want to. Anyone here can check voting records (and when our elected officials are absent and don't actually vote) on any bill. You guys can't check your officials like that? On what they do..not on just what they say? Oh, we can. (Google Hansard.) I was just pleased to see that you had something similar over there.

BitaTruble -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 11:46:15 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: WhoreMods quote: ORIGINAL: BitaTruble quote: ORIGINAL: WhoreMods I like the OED myself, but that has certain limits as a resource about current events. I favour the WHO over the CDC (who seem to be even more of a joke than the EPA since the election from most of what I've read about them), and it's nice to see that you can check a senator's voting record if you want to. Anyone here can check voting records (and when our elected officials are absent and don't actually vote) on any bill. You guys can't check your officials like that? On what they do..not on just what they say? Oh, we can. (Google Hansard.) I was just pleased to see that you had something similar over there. cool! I love homework. Lol Hansard..I shall Google..I shall learn! [;)]

WhoreMods -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 11:56:02 AM)
Minutes of both houses of parliament. If you're worried that your elected representative has just been hanging around the bar instead of voting, and only sees a career in the commons as a way to stick the taxpayer with the bill for repointing his brickwork or dredging his moat, that's how you check whether the fucker has ever bothered to vote without being dragooned into it by a party whip. (Not euphemisms, sadly: both were claims that MPs had made on their expenses when the fuss about that broke in 2009.)

Kirata -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 11:58:52 AM)
I was surprised that you didn't include scientific journals and other academic publications as a general option. But perhaps there wasn't room, or perhaps our interests tend lead us to different sources. My general approach, if I don't already know where to go, and sometimes even if I do, just to see what else might be out there, is to use a meta-search application and one or another of the many meta-search pages where you can search multiple search engines at once. K.

Lucylastic -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 12:02:49 PM)
FR I use all of them but one(vehicle codes) I have FBI, UK home office, Canadian, European stats in PDF and other formats direct, NIH, WHO and CDC< altho I find the CDC muzzling to be a crime.i personalised my news feed with lots of topics, I try to source back as far as I can. other times, not so much. Because of the english/canadian/american interests, I have, I use OED , websters and urban dictionary. then there are the "silly ones"

BitaTruble -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 12:46:39 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Kirata I was surprised that you didn't include scientific journals and other academic publications as a general option. But perhaps there wasn't room, or perhaps our interests tend lead us to different sources. My general approach, if I don't already know where to go, and sometimes even if I do, just to see what else might be out there, is to use a meta-search application and one or another of the many meta-search pages where you can search multiple search engines at once. K. Hello Mr. Kirata, It's about time and space actually. Offering Cliff notes as opposed to novellas because I can go on..and on. ;D You and I have spoken before about intellectual curiosity and seeing where things lead. How we both can get from point A to point C via point Y. I am generally in a different mindset when vetting and fact checking. More purpose to my motive I suppose and I tend to be more focused with purpose. When I am seeking something specific fractals can be distracting. Live long and prosper. ;)

Milesnmiles -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 5:45:21 PM)
Fact checking, an interesting question. I guess I would have to ask for what purpose?

BitaTruble -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 6:02:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Milesnmiles Fact checking, an interesting question. I guess I would have to ask for what purpose? I was hoping other folks would chime in with other sources (Americentric missteps among other things..just not thinking outside my own borders at all), see if any of my own sources should be rethought and ended up with a treasure trove..really well beyond what I was hoping for and I got to spend the afternoon reading debates and bills from other countries using documents I didn't even know existed. I read a debate about Hansard because of Hansard! It struck me it was exactly like watching the way of things here in the States. The amount of material is massive and I feel like the first time I put on a pair of glasses and the world popped open in a way I wasn't aware existed.

tamaka -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 6:13:19 PM)
C-span

MasterG2kTR -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 6:35:04 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BitaTruble I consider all of these valid sources which I use to vet and fact check. If I cannot use these sources then the subject is probably trivial to my grand scheme and anecdotes will do. There are more sources but poll limits set the number at 10 options. Evidence should be up there..DNA, finger prints, audits. I will use Snopes for more blatant scams and such and religious/philosophical text when the discussion is in areas relevant to those texts. I don't use wiki, blogs, talking heads or hearsay. I dont care much about news/whose..I care about facts though and I am generally good at hunting down the nitty gritty. Who do you go to when you are fact checking or vetting? You guys know I do my homework - the poll consists of my chosen textbooks from which to study. Feel free to join any or all of the study groups I have listed or share your own. I am interested in hearing from other folks who also do their own homework. Multiple choices are available. C'mon Bita......why do you have to go to all those sources? We've got plenty of people right here who know everything about anything......just ask them...[8\|][;)][8D]

DaddySatyr -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/10/2017 6:59:39 PM)
This is serious. I'm not being tongue-in-cheek: I reject, out-of-hand, the OED. I also reject Websters. I reject many new versions of dictionaries because of how they obfuscate the true meaning of words. That said, my main reason for rejecting OED and Webster's is that I don't use English. I use American. I have a 25-year-old edition of The American Heritage Dictionary (AHD) and I buy a new edition, every year. Both are within arm's reach, when I sit at my keyboard. Michael

WhoreMods -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/11/2017 5:04:40 AM)
Does the AHD provide philology notes on the derivation and development of a word's meaning as well as a current definition? That's a bit more useful than it misspelling colour and programme, I'd have thought.

WinsomeDefiance -> RE: Multiple choice poll (4/11/2017 6:42:59 AM)
I believe taking into account the etymology of a word is useful in understanding the context of an individual's point of view.

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