TABLE 6.4 NEGATIVE (1-3) TRUSTWORTHINESS OF SOURCES FOLLOW-UP RATIOS
 

In order to keep down the length and cost of the interviews, we only asked follow-up questions of some respondents. The table below indicates the number and percentage of people who were asked follow-up questions if they described a source as particularly untrustworthy by giving it a rating of 1-3, where 1 means not at all trustworthy.

How trustworthy do you think ____ are as a source of information about the past?	Number of respondents in range	Number of respondents who were asked follow-up questions	Percentage
Museums	10	4	.40
Movies or television programs about the past	175	50	.29
Non-fiction Books	68	20	.29
Personal accounts from your grandparents or other relatives	19	9	.47
High school history teachers	68	36	.53
College history professors	36	16	.44
Conversation with someone who was there	22	7	.32