Using the Boolean Operator OR in a search will broaden your results and produce more hits.

• True

• False

Using the Boolean Operator AND will broaden your results and produce more hits.

• True

• False

Using the Boolean Operator NOT will narrow your research and limit your number of hits.

• True

• False

The search "Elon Musk" would search for exactly that phrase because of the quotation marks.

• True

• False

If a survey states that a large number of people agree that the Dallas Cowboys are the best football team in Texas, but the only people surveyed were in a Dallas Cowboys fan shop, the survey results can be considered...

• credible

• biased

• reliable

• accurate

How can you check that a website is trustworthy?

• Check the links the website has to other sources

• Check the facts with another website

• Research the author of the website

• All of the above

If an article is biased, it shows...

• an unfair preference for or dislike of something.

• a lack of education on the part of the writer.

• a lack of seriousness on the part of the writer.

• poor research or writing skills.

Wikipedia can be helpful because....

• It is a primary source document.

• Facts are checked by a professional fact checker.

• It provides citations and links to more credible sources.

• Information can be quoted from there without providing a citation.

All of the following may suggest bias, except:

• first-person, as in "I think"

• opinionated language

• a lack of facts or examples

• a link to another source

You should use caution when googling something because...

• this search engine will pull up all sources on the web (credible or not)

• Some websites or companies pay for their resources to appear at the top of your search results list

• Google can have reliable sources but you will have to analyze each source

• All of the above are correct about using Google for research.