What is reliability?
When evaluating a website, you need to be able to tell if the information is reliable.
We need to know:
Bias
You can detect bias in a site by paying to attention to:
People generally create a website for one of three reasons:
Example
This video takes a look at three websites and points out their varying reliability about the nutritional value of red meat. (Beef: It's What's for Dinner, PETA, Harvard School of Public Health)
We need to know:
- if the information is biased
- the point of view of the site author and/or sponsor
Bias
You can detect bias in a site by paying to attention to:
- strong/emotional language
- missing information
- misrepresenting other people's points of view
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
This video takes a look at three websites and points out their varying reliability about the nutritional value of red meat. (Beef: It's What's for Dinner, PETA, Harvard School of Public Health)