Ha, there's *always* a word that I believe everyone has had issues with. For me, it was epitome. The number of times I quite literally said epi tome. 😅 Belle, thanks for being so real.
May I suggest that you use this setup for your regular videos. That way we'll be able to see the T-shirts you hang behind you. Please keep up the great work
Belle, I love this channel's attitude of actually teaching people how to be better at thinking for themselves rather than telling them what to think. Your answer on paraphrasing quotes encompasses this beautifully. You try to paraphrase with context. You are human and sometimes you will miss the mark. Then you teach people how to find the original quote. Bravo! This is orders of magnitude better then the channels (on the left or right) that tell people what they should think. Sometimes I will comment when I think this channel is falling into 'tell me what to think', but that is only because it sticks out as the exception.
@the Roads with Beau thank you for the symbols near the begining over the years I've forgotten some of the more, useful but less used by me in day to day. Love what all you'll are doing here.
Encouraging Fact Checking is one of the many great things about this channel. 🤗 Belle, Beau and the enitire Crew and of course all the critters and Internet People.
Bell you're the GREATEST! Can't believe nobody ever told me these search hack!(+,-,*) It's like Steve Martin's early 80's skit about Socrates not knowing that hemlock was poison! Keep up the good work, we're all counting on you!
Those are known as Boolean functions. Just searching that descriptor should get you a whole list of other potential search tips to use. They can obviously come in super handy.
I actually am learning to appreciate how differently she approaches the same information. I'm glad we get to hear a feminine perspective on this and also a neutral voice on details.
Unbiased sites/sources or ones that make it very clear where the facts end and their bias begins. Beau was definitely the latter when his opinions came up.
7:16 to the question asker, your instinct to mistrust or need to find the broader context on short quotes is not misplaced. The worst "news" sites will even quote ONE WORD. I've watched more Trump speeches than I care to have because pundits take him out of context all the time to make him sound insane. It irks me, because you don't need to take him out of context to make him sound insane, he does it himself. But my focus is trying to be accurate when I talk with my maga parents, so I can't come at them with "he said no one will have to vote ever again!!?!" They ignore the stuff he says that would actually concern them, but you can bet if news they don't trust takes him out of context they'll know exactly how and it will only serve to convince them they were right about that news site all along.
I agree with this. There's no need, or benefit to overly dramatizing Trump's lunacy. In fact, it's actively harmful.The reality of Trump is bad enough to not need embellishment. Take the quote you mentioned for example. While what you put in quotes can easily, and logically, be inferred from the context of what he actually said, he still didn't say it. This gives Trump's supporters an obvious excuse to disregard the criticism. The best way is to use the actual quote and context, and then connect the dots to everything that the quote implies. You CAN get people to listen this way.
@@lesalbro8880 totally. I understood him to be saying, "Christians, you don't get involved in politics enough. If you get involved in this one election, I will get all the stuff you want done and you can stop paying attention again. Haha" I've listened to enough of him to know when he thinks he's making a joke, and it seemed like a joke to me. That's the charitable read, anyways. It's silly to say Christians don't get involved in politics when he was at a turning point USA sponsored event and evangelicals make up a large part of the base, but he's not known for being grounded in facts, sooo... But we can go from "I'll get all that done" and have a discussion about why that would mean Christians would no longer feel the need to vote anymore... At least that would be productive. It's tricky to quote him, though, when a good deal of what he says is so false you have to go back to grade school to start explaining it or he's thinking he's being funny. "The late great Hannibal" is the same situation. I'm pretty sure someone told him the "have a friend for dinner" joke and it was the first time he heard it and thought it was literally the funniest joke ever and it's now part of his weird tight 5. What matters there is not the joke, but that he's referencing things like Castro emptying prisons (of people who were there bc anti Castro/anti communist; or who stole to eat) in service of the immigration fear mongering narrative. Focusing on Hannibal is a distraction. (I could rant for days lol I'll stop)
I have several sources for news or other information. AP, Reuters, The Guardian, CBC, BBC, Al Jazeera and DW. Countries are USA, UK Canada, Qatar (Al Jazeera). DW is German. I also get information from Australia (ABC) and public media in the USA. I then go through the information and see/hear where they match or don't. Most of these use journalism practices, 3 independent sources of information before they broadcast or publish.
I really like you folks!🥰😊 And not just because I subscribe to all of those too, but because you see the wisdom in getting multiple perspectives from outside of the country, not just what is inside & filtered by U.S. Wealthy Elites. Keep being you!
+ no longer does anything in Google Search. It still does the expected thing in most other search engines. The closest operator for Google Search is _intext:_ - it will only return results that have the term that follows it in the actual text of the page, not metadata or hidden SEO terms or similar.
@@natbarmore According to a Google Search it does even though the list of Google search operators says it was discontinued in 2011. Using Google Does the "+" work in Google search yielded this result. Yes the plus sign (+) is one of the symbols that can be used as a Google search operator. Google search operators are a combination of words and symbols that can be used to improve search results by focusing on certain keywords and excluding others. Your mileage may vary. In case a person finds it not operational "AND" also works.
@@natbarmore : Even quotes don't work on google like they used to. A whole lot of information is now being filtered out by entities that clearly don't want certain information known. A perfect example is who they used to call "[this platform name]'s racist uncle." A programmer who was fired for pushing alt-right content, then was quietly rehired. So it's still happening, I even see it when searching for cartoons (going after the children).
Thanks! Anyone who picks on you for pronunciation is an idiot. Ignore them. You do not need to apologize. Also, take care of yourself because we need you to not burn out like Beau!
I read somewhere that mispronunciation just shows that you read a lot. you know the word, you know exactly what it means, but you may never have heard it spoken.
Someone could read AP and Pro Publica almost exclusively, and still be better informed than most other people. That's (part of) how I personally vet a source, seeing how well the information would stand on its own in a vacuum.
Reuters is pretty factual and dry. They also usually block comments, while AP doesn't but can't handle the moderation. AP especially has a problem with sex advertising bots.
"The Thursday episode" I like specifically because it is just in the flow of things. One week it may be stories that didn't get a lot of coverage, others it's what we keep pelting y'all with and gets more details and depth. Simply, it's what is needed. Or, if so inclined, could be stories about what one of the horses did this week if you're not feeling it. It's okay to have a "general whatever" drawer full of unassigned nick knacks
I also appreciate Deutsche Welle, as they seem (to me) unbiased, plus they have a more global perspective and coverage than most US media. I also like the bias and blind spot features of Ground News to see how sources, especially those outside my usual news bubble, are covering topics.
I miss Beau, but I'm glad I stuck with the change, because you've done a stand-up job in filling the void. I'm sure Beau expected nothing less, but I'd love to see his proud face on how perfectly you've stepped in for him. I see the views have dropped following the transition. It was quite a change, and I suspect a number of those people didn't give you enough of a chance to see that the channel is as valuable as it was previously. Thank you. I hope they return.
Isn't it sad "we" have become so money hungry as a nation that even the news can no longer be trusted. I long for the days of the Huntley/Brinkley Report or Walter Cronkite. I'm so sick of corporate greed!
When I was growing up, Walter Cronkite was THE source for honest reporting. If Walter said it, you knew it was true. And credit to CBS News staff, they did their homework, not just parroting other news outlets, and that made Cronkite even more trustworthy.
@@debrajohnson9489 Cronkite was a consummate professional. The only time I saw him lose it was when he had to report on Carter being attacked by a bunny rabbit while in his boat fishing, but that was a truly bizarre story.
While you were talking about search engine formatting I was thinking "pshh, I know this already." Then you mentioned the asterisks and I was like "wait, really?" I knew they could act as a wildcard, but not in quotes. Just goes to show that it's important not to assume we know everything, even on subjects we're familiar with!
Grateful for the AP perspective. I have trusted them and was concerned with the headline kerfuffle. Thanks Belle for sharing your approach to research and fact checking. Helps to know different ways to approach things.
My challenge is addressing confirmation bias from folks who trust their "sources" more than any other source of information. Similarly, addressing dismissals has recently become highly challenging. "Fake news," "alternate facts," and even the simple "I don't believe that" are a few examples. I bring a backpack full of facts, and it feels like they'll just get tossed onto a book-burning pyre.
Some folks can't be reached at this time. Let them go and be your best self. Set a joyous example and make them jealous/curious enough to reach out TO you.
this was excellent. i had to learn the logical search tools for science. i always forget that everyone does not know this information. absolutely perfect treatise on the subject 🙂
"Beau would always says 'politicians lie'." I wasn't aware I could love his approach more than I already did. I believe in my core that thus is the absolutely necessary starting point of all political analysis
Instead of teaching people facts and figures in school, we need to teach people how to learn, think critically, and check the facts before assuming something is true.
@@victoriajohnson-parratt6975 it it helps - it’s like I’m trying really hard, but just can’t quite hit even the target yet, but still trying - keep faith, I’ll hit the target some day ☺️😉
@@victoriajohnson-parratt6975 I see now my reply got deleted 🤨 I had said: if it helps - I’m def trying; just not quite hitting the target, but still trying and will get there ☺️
This old prof who used to teach research methods as part of undergraduate and graduate courses wishes this video had been available to start class and office discussions with students. Thanks Belle.
As does this old prof. I did take my students to the library, where they got taught this sort of information and research skills in general, but a video would've been great for those who missed class, needed a refresher, or missed it in earlier coursework. I wonder how often information literacy is still a requirement for graduation, as many things I thought were core skills seem to be going by the wayside at various educational levels.
Back to the search for me. I am still having trouble finding immigration details by year. I would like to have accurate data to talk to some folks who believe the GOP-speak about this issue. The PEW research looks good ....
7:55 "Trust but verify" in a nutshell. It never hurts for all of us to check each other's work from time to time because people can and do make honest mistakes. ❤
For folks interested, the search tools that Belle talks about at the beginning are called "boolean operators" - I had an English teacher in high school spend a whole class where she took us to the library and we learned all about them!
Regarding the AP, there used to be a saying about the BBC's coverage of UK politics, along the lines of "whilst both parties claim the BBC is biased against them, it's doing its job", and whilst this is sadly no longer a reality of BBC news coverage, it's something that remains my yardstick for news orgs. A big problem with the "both-siderism" that crept into reporting, is the way it has warped what people think balanced coverage looks like. When interviewing a credentialled, respected climate scientist about a report published by an international body of climate scientists, about the current and projected state of out global environment, it isn't "fair", or "balanced" to dedicate the same amount of time to a climate change denier with no qualifications, or experience, in the field, and who takes a six-figure "salary" from a pro-coal industry think tank. Somehow we have lost sight of this, but resources like this one are at least trying to get us back to a time before "post fact society" was a thing! Thank you Belle and team!
+ no longer does anything in Google Search. It still does the expected thing in most other search engines. The closest operator for Google Search is _intext:_ - it will only return results that have the term that follows it in the actual text of the page, not metadata or hidden SEO terms or similar.
As a retired MS Excel and Access database querying 'spert, I am pleased to FINALLY learn of the + and - feature. But I guess I could have Googled it. 😅
I love that weird phrase search trick. It works for *any* kind of search in anything not just web browsers- PDFs, documents (Word/Googledocs, etc). It can be a complete lifesaver.
you're growing on me. I only found the channel a few months ago, and liked that Beau spoke to the center-right in me. It brought that side more in focus with my socially-left side. You... don't. The topics are there, but the delivery hasn't been. You have a fine delivery, you speak well, I have no issue with YOU, it's just change; and sometimes change is hard. Keep doing what you're doing, you're growing on me!
Thanks so much Belle for this video: it opened up an issue in such a clear way, making what had been just "fact checking" into sthg I can do on my own: you gave me tools! And I so appreciate your delivery. (I'm glad you left myriad as it came out: you made me laugh with understanding and don't we all do that from time to time.) Your videos are such a good way to spend my time.
My cousin who is conservative has decided to share with me a TikTok “influencer” who is also conservative and who “corrects” liberal TikTokers. Naturally he doesn’t give much in way of sources or anything. In one video I could see the name of the website so I was easily able to look into everything he said for myself, but in the second one, it was just a picture of three graphs and he did not give any kind of website information.
Thursday does have a special name. Thursday was renamed by royal decree in 1150 by Henry II to commemorate Chris Hemsworth's award wining portrayal in Thor: Ragnarok
3:09 - This (including what's leading up to this moment) really is good advice. I remember hearing a talk from someone that was developing a scanner "pen" that could be passed over a line of text, like one might with a highlighter, and it would "bookmark" the quote when you synced to a computer later... And they said that in their research, in a significant majority of cases, any 6 words in sequence was usually enough to uniquely identify a particular document. I'm sure that falls off with an oft-quoted phrase, but yeah. This!
This is such a helpful video. Thank you for this information and for the work you are doing to provide for us the important events happening around us. I’m enjoying your perspective.
Ok so, I know how to say myriad. I got tongue tired at the end of the video and it was late. Forgive me.
Forgiven. This time…😁
Non-verbal autistic here.
The written word is my forte and means of expression. The spoken word much less so.
You are doing an amazing job 💙
Not good enough, this is THE ROADS!!! 😅
Ha, there's *always* a word that I believe everyone has had issues with. For me, it was epitome. The number of times I quite literally said epi tome. 😅 Belle, thanks for being so real.
May I suggest that you use this setup for your regular videos. That way we'll be able to see the T-shirts you hang behind you.
Please keep up the great work
For the Thursday episode, may I suggest a multi-level pun?
“The Belle Wether Report”.
I like that!
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@@roadswithbeau2 other good ideas I've heard from your viewers,🤔 are Dana Data & Dispatches from the Fifth Column. Just sharing more thoughts! 🥰🫂💖
"Great idea!" I said, and not sheepishly. 🔔🐑
@@brendasmart553 as a nerd, Dana Data is a delightful reminder of the ST:TNG character.✌🖖
Belle, I love this channel's attitude of actually teaching people how to be better at thinking for themselves rather than telling them what to think.
Your answer on paraphrasing quotes encompasses this beautifully. You try to paraphrase with context. You are human and sometimes you will miss the mark. Then you teach people how to find the original quote. Bravo!
This is orders of magnitude better then the channels (on the left or right) that tell people what they should think.
Sometimes I will comment when I think this channel is falling into 'tell me what to think', but that is only because it sticks out as the exception.
Tell a man the facts and he hears, teach a man to find the facts and he learns.
If that man is seated squarely upon his own shoulders, he'll be unable to do either.
@@SaberToothBicycle I love that phrasing! It should probably be on a tee shirt.
All of these r also true for women! 😂
@@nikki41308 Absolutely true.
That's great when you know the person is open to learning how to do that. Spitting facts is sometimes your only option
@the Roads with Beau thank you for the symbols near the begining over the years I've forgotten some of the more, useful but less used by me in day to day. Love what all you'll are doing here.
Encouraging Fact Checking is one of the many great things about this channel. 🤗 Belle, Beau and the enitire Crew and of course all the critters and Internet People.
Bell you're the GREATEST! Can't believe nobody ever told me these search hack!(+,-,*) It's like Steve Martin's early 80's skit about Socrates not knowing that hemlock was poison! Keep up the good work, we're all counting on you!
Those are Boolean functions.
The others work as well with many search engines and can be very useful.
Those are known as Boolean functions. Just searching that descriptor should get you a whole list of other potential search tips to use. They can obviously come in super handy.
I actually am learning to appreciate how differently she approaches the same information. I'm glad we get to hear a feminine perspective on this and also a neutral voice on details.
Thank you. I appreciate the hints which I used to know but forgot. This senior citizen loves your segments
Pushed the save button on this video. Loaded with information we will review and use. Thank you Belle ❤
Good call, I’m going to do that now.
Thank you for all you are doing, for us, and for America.
Boolean search is like algebra for words.
Share this video good people. SO many people need to learn how to fact check with unbiased sites.
Done and done
Unbiased sites/sources or ones that make it very clear where the facts end and their bias begins. Beau was definitely the latter when his opinions came up.
Every bit of this video is cut-crystal excellence. Many thanks for making it.
7:16 to the question asker, your instinct to mistrust or need to find the broader context on short quotes is not misplaced. The worst "news" sites will even quote ONE WORD. I've watched more Trump speeches than I care to have because pundits take him out of context all the time to make him sound insane. It irks me, because you don't need to take him out of context to make him sound insane, he does it himself. But my focus is trying to be accurate when I talk with my maga parents, so I can't come at them with "he said no one will have to vote ever again!!?!" They ignore the stuff he says that would actually concern them, but you can bet if news they don't trust takes him out of context they'll know exactly how and it will only serve to convince them they were right about that news site all along.
I agree with this. There's no need, or benefit to overly dramatizing Trump's lunacy. In fact, it's actively harmful.The reality of Trump is bad enough to not need embellishment.
Take the quote you mentioned for example. While what you put in quotes can easily, and logically, be inferred from the context of what he actually said, he still didn't say it. This gives Trump's supporters an obvious excuse to disregard the criticism. The best way is to use the actual quote and context, and then connect the dots to everything that the quote implies. You CAN get people to listen this way.
@@lesalbro8880 totally. I understood him to be saying, "Christians, you don't get involved in politics enough. If you get involved in this one election, I will get all the stuff you want done and you can stop paying attention again. Haha" I've listened to enough of him to know when he thinks he's making a joke, and it seemed like a joke to me. That's the charitable read, anyways. It's silly to say Christians don't get involved in politics when he was at a turning point USA sponsored event and evangelicals make up a large part of the base, but he's not known for being grounded in facts, sooo... But we can go from "I'll get all that done" and have a discussion about why that would mean Christians would no longer feel the need to vote anymore... At least that would be productive.
It's tricky to quote him, though, when a good deal of what he says is so false you have to go back to grade school to start explaining it or he's thinking he's being funny.
"The late great Hannibal" is the same situation. I'm pretty sure someone told him the "have a friend for dinner" joke and it was the first time he heard it and thought it was literally the funniest joke ever and it's now part of his weird tight 5. What matters there is not the joke, but that he's referencing things like Castro emptying prisons (of people who were there bc anti Castro/anti communist; or who stole to eat) in service of the immigration fear mongering narrative. Focusing on Hannibal is a distraction.
(I could rant for days lol I'll stop)
I have several sources for news or other information. AP, Reuters, The Guardian, CBC, BBC, Al Jazeera and DW. Countries are USA, UK Canada, Qatar (Al Jazeera). DW is German.
I also get information from Australia (ABC) and public media in the USA.
I then go through the information and see/hear where they match or don't.
Most of these use journalism practices, 3 independent sources of information before they broadcast or publish.
Those are my favorite sources too
Nearly the same list I like.
I particularly appreciate Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and The Guardian. It's nice to have a more global perspective on news.
I really like you folks!🥰😊 And not just because I subscribe to all of those too, but because you see the wisdom in getting multiple perspectives from outside of the country, not just what is inside & filtered by U.S. Wealthy Elites.
Keep being you!
This is a very helpful “How to” video! Great job, Belle and team!!!
No need, you’re awesome, Belle!!! I learned so much today about honing a search! Thank you!
Thank you for the commentary.
In computer searches
* = anything.
"quote marks" = exact match to quoted text
+ = must have
- = must not have
+ no longer does anything in Google Search. It still does the expected thing in most other search engines.
The closest operator for Google Search is _intext:_ - it will only return results that have the term that follows it in the actual text of the page, not metadata or hidden SEO terms or similar.
@@natbarmore According to a Google Search it does even though the list of Google search operators says it was discontinued in 2011.
Using Google
Does the "+" work in Google search yielded this result.
Yes the plus sign (+) is one of the symbols that can be used as a Google search operator. Google search operators are a combination of words and symbols that can be used to improve search results by focusing on certain keywords and excluding others.
Your mileage may vary.
In case a person finds it not operational "AND" also works.
@@natbarmore : Even quotes don't work on google like they used to. A whole lot of information is now being filtered out by entities that clearly don't want certain information known. A perfect example is who they used to call "[this platform name]'s racist uncle." A programmer who was fired for pushing alt-right content, then was quietly rehired. So it's still happening, I even see it when searching for cartoons (going after the children).
Thanks! Anyone who picks on you for pronunciation is an idiot. Ignore them. You do not need to apologize.
Also, take care of yourself because we need you to not burn out like Beau!
Ditto to both points!
I read somewhere that mispronunciation just shows that you read a lot. you know the word, you know exactly what it means, but you may never have heard it spoken.
AP is still one of the best, but I too have noticed the increase in emotive and biased language over the past few years.
Yup, agree.
Someone could read AP and Pro Publica almost exclusively, and still be better informed than most other people. That's (part of) how I personally vet a source, seeing how well the information would stand on its own in a vacuum.
Mother Jones also is very accurate, their biases are not hidden...
Reuters is pretty factual and dry. They also usually block comments, while AP doesn't but can't handle the moderation. AP especially has a problem with sex advertising bots.
I find the AP in the bag with agent orange . 😢
"The Thursday episode" I like specifically because it is just in the flow of things. One week it may be stories that didn't get a lot of coverage, others it's what we keep pelting y'all with and gets more details and depth.
Simply, it's what is needed. Or, if so inclined, could be stories about what one of the horses did this week if you're not feeling it. It's okay to have a "general whatever" drawer full of unassigned nick knacks
AP and Reuters are two of the most reliable news sources
I also appreciate Deutsche Welle, as they seem (to me) unbiased, plus they have a more global perspective and coverage than most US media. I also like the bias and blind spot features of Ground News to see how sources, especially those outside my usual news bubble, are covering topics.
Todays Lesson- Google Fu with Sensei Belle
This is excellent. Far too many don't research, they just suck up whatever bias is most common, or to their personal bias.
This is so needed. Thank you Belle!
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Thanks, Belle and crew 😊.
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@@offtarget1758 👋🙂💙💙🙂
Good morning i!
@victoriajohnson-parratt6975 Good morning Victoria 🌞.
I miss Beau, but I'm glad I stuck with the change, because you've done a stand-up job in filling the void. I'm sure Beau expected nothing less, but I'd love to see his proud face on how perfectly you've stepped in for him. I see the views have dropped following the transition. It was quite a change, and I suspect a number of those people didn't give you enough of a chance to see that the channel is as valuable as it was previously. Thank you. I hope they return.
THANK you. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the garbage out there. Your tips will help immensely.
So much important information this morning, especially on how to research.Thank you
Thank you. Excellent information.
Have a good day Belle and Beau.
Good morning Belle and internet folks.
Good morning Mark!
Hi Mark!
On the roads again! Glad to come for the ride.
Good morning Angelika! Happy to share the ride with you!
@@victoriajohnson-parratt6975thanks!
Isn't it sad "we" have become so money hungry as a nation that even the news can no longer be trusted. I long for the days of the Huntley/Brinkley Report or Walter Cronkite. I'm so sick of corporate greed!
When I was growing up, Walter Cronkite was THE source for honest reporting. If Walter said it, you knew it was true. And credit to CBS News staff, they did their homework, not just parroting other news outlets, and that made Cronkite even more trustworthy.
@@debrajohnson9489 Cronkite was a consummate professional.
The only time I saw him lose it was when he had to report on Carter being attacked by a bunny rabbit while in his boat fishing, but that was a truly bizarre story.
Probably best for whiteboard people to have non-whiteboard partners to keep them grounded😀
My long-suffering spouse would agree
While you were talking about search engine formatting I was thinking "pshh, I know this already." Then you mentioned the asterisks and I was like "wait, really?" I knew they could act as a wildcard, but not in quotes. Just goes to show that it's important not to assume we know everything, even on subjects we're familiar with!
Thank you for these brilliant search tips.
Hello Thursday Morning People!
Good morning George from the Canadian prairies. Stay safe and well neighbour. 🇨🇦💕🇺🇸
Hi George!
Hi back
Well, hello!
@@jansilverthorn777Hidee-ho there good neighbor!! From the northern prairies of the USA 🇺🇸 👋
Grateful for the AP perspective. I have trusted them and was concerned with the headline kerfuffle. Thanks Belle for sharing your approach to research and fact checking. Helps to know different ways to approach things.
Good morning ☕️ internet people and Ms. Belle
☕️ Good morning!
Good morning, great day all.
Tks Belle, always enjoy the show but this one for me was extra helpful, tks ❤❤❤
My challenge is addressing confirmation bias from folks who trust their "sources" more than any other source of information.
Similarly, addressing dismissals has recently become highly challenging. "Fake news," "alternate facts," and even the simple "I don't believe that" are a few examples. I bring a backpack full of facts, and it feels like they'll just get tossed onto a book-burning pyre.
Some folks can't be reached at this time. Let them go and be your best self. Set a joyous example and make them jealous/curious enough to reach out TO you.
The problem is...70 to 80% of people do not read past the headline so the headlines ABSOLUTELY matter.
this was excellent. i had to learn the logical search tools for science. i always forget that everyone does not know this information. absolutely perfect treatise on the subject 🙂
Ha…loving the Belle/House/medicine crossover from Beau's approach.
I'm just saying, there's a reason those jokes about the similarities between them never went away.
Thank you for the search information .
Good morning beautiful people.
Thank you for the very useful information Ms Belle, and hope you have a wonderful day!!
Golly Molly Moses! Thank you, Belle.
"Beau would always says 'politicians lie'." I wasn't aware I could love his approach more than I already did. I believe in my core that thus is the absolutely necessary starting point of all political analysis
Instead of teaching people facts and figures in school, we need to teach people how to learn, think critically, and check the facts before assuming something is true.
Well done. Many searchers don't even know about the advanced search options.
Happy trails fellow travelers!
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I keep wanting to call you on target, but a name is sacred, so I respect you being you :-)
@@victoriajohnson-parratt6975 it it helps - it’s like I’m trying really hard, but just can’t quite hit even the target yet, but still trying - keep faith, I’ll hit the target some day ☺️😉
Best of luck on the road, friends ^^
@@victoriajohnson-parratt6975 I see now my reply got deleted 🤨 I had said: if it helps - I’m def trying; just not quite hitting the target, but still trying and will get there ☺️
This old prof who used to teach research methods as part of undergraduate and graduate courses wishes this video had been available to start class and office discussions with students. Thanks Belle.
As does this old prof. I did take my students to the library, where they got taught this sort of information and research skills in general, but a video would've been great for those who missed class, needed a refresher, or missed it in earlier coursework. I wonder how often information literacy is still a requirement for graduation, as many things I thought were core skills seem to be going by the wayside at various educational levels.
Thanks Belle 👍
Thanks so much for the search tips, these are so helpful. Knowing how to use a search engine more effectively is such a time saver.
Back to the search for me. I am still having trouble finding immigration details by year. I would like to have accurate data to talk to some folks who believe the GOP-speak about this issue. The PEW research looks good ....
Pew is very useful. I use Statista a lot for things like this, too.
Learned a lot! Thank you.
7:55 "Trust but verify" in a nutshell. It never hurts for all of us to check each other's work from time to time because people can and do make honest mistakes.
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For folks interested, the search tools that Belle talks about at the beginning are called "boolean operators" - I had an English teacher in high school spend a whole class where she took us to the library and we learned all about them!
Thank you Belle
Regarding the AP, there used to be a saying about the BBC's coverage of UK politics, along the lines of "whilst both parties claim the BBC is biased against them, it's doing its job", and whilst this is sadly no longer a reality of BBC news coverage, it's something that remains my yardstick for news orgs. A big problem with the "both-siderism" that crept into reporting, is the way it has warped what people think balanced coverage looks like. When interviewing a credentialled, respected climate scientist about a report published by an international body of climate scientists, about the current and projected state of out global environment, it isn't "fair", or "balanced" to dedicate the same amount of time to a climate change denier with no qualifications, or experience, in the field, and who takes a six-figure "salary" from a pro-coal industry think tank. Somehow we have lost sight of this, but resources like this one are at least trying to get us back to a time before "post fact society" was a thing! Thank you Belle and team!
I didn't think i'd be getting a review on regular expressions on the roads not taken but it's welcome :)
That was useful, thank you. I knew about the * but not about the + and -.
+ no longer does anything in Google Search. It still does the expected thing in most other search engines.
The closest operator for Google Search is _intext:_ - it will only return results that have the term that follows it in the actual text of the page, not metadata or hidden SEO terms or similar.
You’re great at this,please keep doing it,AMERICA needs you more now than ever,thank you,thank you.
Yay Boolean search terms!
Love the suggestion to use advanced search tools and limiting the types of sites to display.
You are good at this Bell - great tools/information👍
As a retired MS Excel and Access database querying 'spert, I am pleased to FINALLY learn of the + and - feature. But I guess I could have Googled it. 😅
G'mornin' fam 😊
👋 Julia!
G'mornin' back to you ‼️ 😊
@@Struthio_Camelus Struthio! 😃💙🫂
@@marissashelley2362 Hiya! 😁❣️
Good morning darling Julia!
Hey there, BELLEAGAIN!
I think your cap patch should say...
"I'VE DONE STUFF AND
I KNOW STUFF, TOO."
This information is vital. I hope this video goes viral.
Great information Belle. Thanks so much for taking the time. Have a wonderful day!
I love that weird phrase search trick. It works for *any* kind of search in anything not just web browsers- PDFs, documents (Word/Googledocs, etc).
It can be a complete lifesaver.
Asterisk.... Asterix is a Gaullic barbarian, with his buddy, Obelix, a classic :)
Myriad: a large but unspecified number.
A very practical episode...
The tips on syntax to use in refining a
Google search was very helpful.
Thank you.
I had someone on social media tell me once that Google was woke. I guess he gets his truth from X or Truth Social.
"To me it looks like something out of a movie about conspiracy theories". Lol love Belle, she's just as funny as Beau.
If you just type in "to the moon" you'll get Ralph Cramden !
LMAO
But probably over some people's heads😂😂❤
Best to Beau
Yay, Roads! 👍🏼🌊💙💙💙🌊🥰✌🏼
Great information! Thank you Belle and TFC team!
According to my opinion, I'm never wrong.
Good morning ☀️
Politicians ALWAYS have a reason for saying something in public. I question it.
"...[I]t isn't that they [AP] treat both sides the same, but that they treat them fairly." Perfect.
you're growing on me. I only found the channel a few months ago, and liked that Beau spoke to the center-right in me. It brought that side more in focus with my socially-left side. You... don't. The topics are there, but the delivery hasn't been. You have a fine delivery, you speak well, I have no issue with YOU, it's just change; and sometimes change is hard. Keep doing what you're doing, you're growing on me!
Thanks so much Belle for this video: it opened up an issue in such a clear way, making what had been just "fact checking" into sthg I can do on my own: you gave me tools!
And I so appreciate your delivery.
(I'm glad you left myriad as it came out: you made me laugh with understanding and don't we all do that from time to time.)
Your videos are such a good way to spend my time.
Fabulous information, very helpful. Will save, for sure. Thank you! ❤️
Ps….Hi to Beau.
None are perfect...as soon as we assume we are... we've stopped learning and started confirmation bias...
Good stuff, thanks Mama Beau!
My cousin who is conservative has decided to share with me a TikTok “influencer” who is also conservative and who “corrects” liberal TikTokers. Naturally he doesn’t give much in way of sources or anything. In one video I could see the name of the website so I was easily able to look into everything he said for myself, but in the second one, it was just a picture of three graphs and he did not give any kind of website information.
Thursday does have a special name. Thursday was renamed by royal decree in 1150 by Henry II to commemorate Chris Hemsworth's award wining portrayal in Thor: Ragnarok
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3:09 - This (including what's leading up to this moment) really is good advice. I remember hearing a talk from someone that was developing a scanner "pen" that could be passed over a line of text, like one might with a highlighter, and it would "bookmark" the quote when you synced to a computer later... And they said that in their research, in a significant majority of cases, any 6 words in sequence was usually enough to uniquely identify a particular document. I'm sure that falls off with an oft-quoted phrase, but yeah. This!
This is such a helpful video. Thank you for this information and for the work you are doing to provide for us the important events happening around us. I’m enjoying your perspective.
“Something that only works if you process information the way he does.” Amen!
Thanks!