TABLE 1.2 TRUSTWORTHINESS OF SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE PAST -- BY RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUP

We asked our respondents for the following information about seven "places where people might get information about the past:" "Please tell (us) how trustworthy you think each is as a source of information about the past using a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 means not at all trustworthy and 10 means very trustworthy."The table below reports the mean score our national sample and four racial/ethnic groups gave the sources of information in the far-left column. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of respondents on which each mean is based.

How trustworthy do you think ____ are as a source of information about the past?	RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUPS
	National sample	White	African American	Mexican America	Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux
Museums	8.4 (778)	8.5 (608)	8.1 (283)	8.6 (185)	7.1 (176)
Personal accounts from your grandparents or other relatives	8.0 (789)	8.0 (615)	8.4 (289)	8.2 (189)	8.8 (181)
Conversation with someone who was there	7.8 (790)	7.8 (611)	7.9 (290)	8.2 (188)	8.0 (177)
College history professors	7.3 (692)	7.4 (537)	7.0 (261)	8.3 (172)	7.1 (161)
High school history teachers	6.6 (771)	6.7 (594)	6.2 (293)	7.5 (189)	5.9 (178)
Non-fiction Books	6.4 (747)	6.4 (583)	5.6 (278)	6.6 (181)	5.4 (169)
Movies or television programs about the past	5.0 (783)	4.9 (610)	5.2 (291)	6.0 (189)	4.2 (180)