Information on the Internet
Source: AP
Survey: Internet More Important Than Ever
Look here. A college student admits that the library is the place to go for “real information”. From the article, “When you need real information you always go to the library. But (for) easier stuff, and you’re too lazy to go to the library, you can find it from Google,”…said Yale University junior Ralph Byrd, 20. As we all know a VERY minute of information is digitized but I wonder if Ralph ever uses the many databases and electronic journals that are easily accessible from outside the Yale Library? This AP story focuses on a new telephone survey conducted at UCLA. Here are a few results:
* “Only 53 percent of users believe most or all of what they read online, down from 58 percent a year earlier.” A few other blurbs from the article:
* “Alisha Richman, 20, of Houston, said she only trusts health information from doctors or hospitals and reports in science journals she reads online. Much of what’s out there, she said, is often “kind of iffy.”
* “About 61 percent of Internet users find the Net “very” or “extremely” important as an information source, compared with 60 percent for books and 58 percent for newspapers � within the margin for error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.”
* “Nearly 30 percent of Americans do not use the Net, most commonly because they don’t have a computer or one good enough. But nearly half the nonusers say they are likely to go online within a year.”
See Also: The Full-Text of the UCLA Report Will Be Available on Friday.

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