>|> Flame me if you will. One might believe the predictions
>|> that surfing the net would result in surfer-mentality
>|> -neuroscience.
>|>
>|> yeck!
>
>Hear, Hear!! You would think the readers of the group are junior
>highschoolers in a one room school house the way they ask for references.
>Dont come to the net asking for references until youve done a thourough
>search either in the library by hand or using the computer data bases.
>Thomas
>
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Yes sir! Yes sir! I'm sorry for being out of line! [sarcasm]
I've seen so much of this type of flaming of people for asking questions
over the net and this sort of childish response really irks me. I
remember asking a basic question about gravity and the planets (or
something like that) on what I thought was an appropriate physics
newsgroup and the flaming about how "stupid" I was went on for a week. I
don't think it was a stupid question and I wasn't sure where to get the
answer. That newsgroup looked appropriate so I asked my question.
Sure library research is important! So is direct questioning of the
"experts" and I see absolutely nothing wrong with going to them _first_,
before I spend hours of fruitless searching on a topic I'm not familiar
with. It makes perfect sense to me to ask those "in the know" first so
that I may be able to carry out my later searching more efficiently, and
perhapse be able to understand all the jargon I'll eventually have to
wade through.
In my opinion, lay-people and students don't ask enough questions as it
is, without having to be discouraged from doing so by this kind of
moronic response.
scott at psych.toronto.edu | "They are in you and in me; they created us,
Brian Scott | body and mind; and their preservation is
Department of Psychology | the ultimate rationale for our existence."
University of Toronto, Canada | - Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene)
