AB Answers - What Resources?

[brawburd]

What do you use when responding to questions? Your brain, reference books, the net, other people's knowledge? What's the most popular? I would say a combination of brain (?) and net for me.

[sft42]

Depends on the category the question is in usually......Mostly the same two as you but I have a large library at home (nearly 2,000 books) and use this if I know the info will be available in there.

[FTVS]

Geberally a combo of the net and my own experiences. For example where something I happen to know means I can run a more explicit search.

[TRINITY]

The net for most,occassionally reference books but my favourite has to be my own opinion answers mostly in body & soul.

[WendyW]

Brain & Net for me too!!

[andy hughes]

It's a mixture of opinions - always my own, and the ludicrous amount of trivia I seem to have filed away in my brain, and for music, an equally ridiculous amount of factual information which I appear to retain with no concious effort what so ever.

[archbishop]

Unfortunately my brain which is probably why I don't answer many questions, Quizzy The Awesome is usually there before me.

[LeMarchand]

My brain, which is the size of a planet (I keep it stored in hyperspace) ;-). OK, brain + net.

[lisaj]

I use my own knowledge and rarely look something up else I know it's there and just need to find the URL. At the end of the day, the person who got as far as this site can go look it up in Google for themselves... Why the hell should I do the leg work and present it all on a platter?!

[David H]

If I know something, that's it, if I'm not sure but have an idea I have a collection of reference books, maps and dictionaries, and if it's about a product or specific thing not in my books, then I'll do a net search.

[Janetex]

Brain (often confirmed by a net search), reference books and me mum. When there's a question I know nothing about, I enjoy searching the internet and usually end up spending too much time learning something new.

[incitatus]

so im the only one who asks the magic pixie who lives in my desktop biscuit tin?