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Highlights
id796527157
Secondary sources are fantastic at distilling information, and while it is often useful to go back and confirm that a secondary source is in fact accurately representing a primary source, the fact of the matter is… a lot of the times laymen (and everyone is a layman in at least one field) do not have the expertise to evaluate that. Sometimes, the best way to confirm the reliability secondary source is to just read a lot of other secondary sources.
id796527111
If you give somebody a primary source that is a snippet of text and expect them to come up with something that makes sense, instead of a tertiary source that has written to educate and explain, they’re going to have a rough time.