It was a trick question (sorry!) - all media are primary sources. From the wikipedia article:
“Primary” and “secondary” are relative terms, with sources judged primary or secondary according to specific historical contexts and what is being studied.
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For example, encyclopedias are generally considered tertiary sources, but Pliny’s Naturalis Historia, originally published in the 1st century, is a primary source for information about the Roman era.
Not all of the books I mentioned are primary sources about WWII—the ones you mentioned are primary sources in other subjects. For example, WWII for Dummies is a primary source for a study of the For Dummies series, and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a primary source for how history was generally written in the second half of the twentieth century (e.g., from the perspective of nations more so than of a random person).
So where I’m going with this is to say that reversed stupidity isn’t intelligence, but information about stupidity is information about a topic, just as legitimate information about a topic is legitimate information about a topic, even if others are stupid about that topic. Knowledge of stupidity is a type of information no different than any other, this is how it indirectly affects knowledge about which the stupid are stupid about.
It was a trick question (sorry!) - all media are primary sources. From the wikipedia article:
Not all of the books I mentioned are primary sources about WWII—the ones you mentioned are primary sources in other subjects. For example, WWII for Dummies is a primary source for a study of the For Dummies series, and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a primary source for how history was generally written in the second half of the twentieth century (e.g., from the perspective of nations more so than of a random person).
So where I’m going with this is to say that reversed stupidity isn’t intelligence, but information about stupidity is information about a topic, just as legitimate information about a topic is legitimate information about a topic, even if others are stupid about that topic. Knowledge of stupidity is a type of information no different than any other, this is how it indirectly affects knowledge about which the stupid are stupid about.