What is Reliability?
Reliability means being able to depend on or trust someone or something. When evaluating a website, you need to be able to tell if the information is reliable.
It is reliable if we can be sure it is unbiased.
People generally create a website for one of three reasons:
Example:Take a look at these three sites to see the difference in point of view and purpose:
Site #1 (sell: a site from the beef industry)
Site #2 (inform: a site from Harvard School of Public Health)
Site #3 (persuade: a site from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
You can detect bias in a site by paying to attention to:
It is reliable if we can be sure it is unbiased.
People generally create a website for one of three reasons:
- sell you a product
- influence what you think about an opinion on an issue
- give you information about a topic
Example:Take a look at these three sites to see the difference in point of view and purpose:
Site #1 (sell: a site from the beef industry)
Site #2 (inform: a site from Harvard School of Public Health)
Site #3 (persuade: a site from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
You can detect bias in a site by paying to attention to:
- strong/emotional language
- missing information
- misrepresenting other people's points of view