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Question #1
All of the following are true regarding primary and secondary information sources, EXCEPT:
A.   Primary source articles will often contain an abstract, while secondary sourec articles will never contain an abstract.
B.   Peer-review performed on primary articles is essentially. a credibility check to assure that the scientists ran a study, calculated the results and delivered the experiment's conclusions accurately.
C.   We can always assume that secondary information sources are credible, without needing to examine them.
D.   Secondary source articles are less credible than primary source articles because secondary articles have not undergone peer-review by a scientific journal publisher.
E.   Research studies performed by scientists using the scientific method are published in scholarly journals, which are considered primary information sources.
Question #2
Review this article. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0056415 What kind of information source is this and what color rating would it receive for credibility based on Tim's information competency materials?
A.   Secondary and moderately credible (orange)
B.   Primary (green)
C.   Secondary with poor or questionable credibility (red)
D.   Secondary and quite credible (yellow)
Question #3
Review this article. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/agave-nectar-is-even-worse-than-sugar#what-it-is What kind of information source is this and what color rating would it receive for credibility based on Tim's information competency materials?
A.   Secondary and quite credible (yellow)
B.   Secondary and moderately credible (orange)
C.   Secondary with poor or questionable credibility (red)
D.   Primary and credible (green)
Question #4
Review this article. https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/coronavirus-antibody-testing What kind of information source is this and what color rating would it receive for credibility based on Tim's information competency materials?
A.   Secondary and moderately credible (orange)
B.   Secondary and quite credible (yellow)
C.   Primary and credible (green)
D.   Secondary with questionable credibility (red)
Question #5
All of the following are true with regard to this article (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200603194444.htm), EXCEPT.
A.   This secondary article can be deemed credible because its content reflects the contents of a primary journal article whose reference is found at the end of the article.
B.   This article has no abstract, meaning it is unlikely to be a primary information source.
C.   The article located in the reference has passed peer-review and been published in the journal "Obesity".
D.   This article has passed peer-review and been published in the journal called "Obesity".
E.   This article is a secondary information source whose content is based on a primary source article (which can be found bolded under Journal Reference) beneath the article at this web page.
F.   This article is produced by a web site called "Science Daily" which summarizes scholarly journal articles to present breaking news stories (in secondary source format) about the latest discoveries in health.

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