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Evaluating Websites: Accuracy

Are the facts in the website accurate?

 
 
 

 v  Can the site's information be verified elsewhere, maybe in a print source? 

 

  v  Is any bibliography given as proof of research?

 

 

   v  Question the information - don't take at face value.   

Click on the picture to check out this website.  

   How do you know the information on this site is accurate?   Hint--What is the peer review status?  Is this site accredited?

To see how some websites get it wrong see Amy Tan.net.

Also, see how getting inacurate information can be downright dangerous: Internet child health advice 'wrong'.

 

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