study finds erowid 1# source for legit info.

[fnord]

just found this on erowid:
Reliability of information sources
Scores were allocated by assigned ranking: most reliable = 11 points, least reliable = 1 point. This was an option question and we received only 668 responses. It should be noted that the initial positions of the sources in the list were alphabetical (CNN first), so there may be some artificial weighting towards those appearing at the top of the set.

Relative Reliability of Information Sources SourceRank'Reliability' ScoreMean score Erowid1732710.09229 DanceSafe269579.582645 Doctor352387.214876 Friends450426.944904 CNN544566.137741 Times639215.400826 Government website736234.990358 Parents835934.949036 DARE933764.650138 Teacher1021973.026171 Police1121863.011019

these results have to bring a smile to your face,every "role model" ie:teachers cops dare our gov mainstream news etc etc has been toped by a internet site.at least kids can see threw the lies!


http://www.erowid.org/general/survey...article1.shtml

[Mint boi]

Wow, even above doctors, thats good to see. CNN is kinda high up there, but i guess when you see whats below its not such a worry

[Bajeda]

The title of this thread is misleading. The study wasn't attempting to evaluate what the best sources of drug information are. The reliability rankings were based on the perceived reliability of various information sources by the people taking the survey, which was attempting to repudiate (or at least look into) the idea that people believe ecstasy and/or other drugs are safe.

The study seems to have found a correlation between level of use and the level of perceived risk for using the substance, but you can't imply any causation with this and the graphs provided on that page don't really tell us much of anything because we can't compare how certain variables are correlated with particular perceptions of drug use risk.

Also keep in mind that while surveys aren't the most reliable means for scientific research, web surveys are even more prone to inconsistencies and other problems.

Fairly interesting, but I'd like to see more professionally conducted follow-up research.

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[fnord]

oops just realized that the graph i posted didint post right,how would i post that without it getting all messed up?