Doing your own research also means being open to the possibility that your hypothesis is incorrect.
If those people could read, they’d be very upset.
Even if they could read, they’d stop after the 4th line or so. They need a video of someone staring them in the face and saying this in simple words with sound effects and pop-up visuals.
And this is why in the age of search engines and LLMs we need to be teaching, both young and old, how to perform lateral reading.
It’s not a full research skill set but it’s better than nothing.
Remember the CRAAP test, everyone:
Currency (Is this information current? If not when was it updated?)
Relevance (Does it make sense to the topic you’re working on? Does it not?)
Authority (Who wrote this article? What are their qualifications?)
Accuracy (Is this information accurate? Can you cross-reference with other articles or papers?)
Purpose (What was the author’s purpose in writing this? Were they paid to write this piece?)
(Edit: formatting)
My research:
Nobody who does that is going to read, let alone understand, this valid criticism of their methodology
