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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Judging Reliability of Websites

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#inforeliability To determine whether the website is bias ask yourself "Do they giving you lots of information that you can make up your own mind?

Information that you get from a web site can be biased.

You should look at the information and decide if it is biased or unbiased. You need to think about why the author has created the web site.

Do they want you to think in a certain way or are they giving you lots of information so that you can make up your own mind?

There are many reasons why a site might give biased information. These include:

1. To advertise a product or service

2. To change how you think - probably to their point of view

People are biased when they give one opinion without looking at the other points of view.

You might be said to be biased if you like one picture best because your best friend painted it!

It is very difficult to be completely unbiased, but you must try to think of all the different sides.

For something to be unbiased it must give all the points of view so that you can make up your own mind.

It will consider many people's opinions or several sets of facts before giving the author's own point of view.

In this case, you may also be able to form your own opinions instead of just accepting that one set of information must be the "right one".

Take a look at this web site:

This web site looks very official, and it is true that carrots are good for you, but other vegetables should be eaten too.

Because it is made by the International Carrot Society they are biased towards getting you to eat carrots.

They have not given you a balanced view on the importance of carrots.

1. Are the aims of the site clear? Finding the aim can help understand why the info was posted, whether to trust it.

2. If the website give you any information that you don't need to know, or too detail like Wikipedia skip it.

3. Always check the update for information reliability and it depends on the type of information you're looking.

4. If the website have a lot of information. You can check this website right or wrong by going to another website and check.

5. What choices does the website give you? Make sure there are choices for you to do. Also, they not suppose to have bias.

6. You should use website that has the information you need and remember to read the website carefully

7. It is suppose to be cleared the fact that who wrote it because we should know why he or she wrote it.

8. Careful to see if is bias or not. We should know why the author create the website