Identify two possible sources of information—one credible and the other not. Explain why one is credible and the other is not. Be sure to give examples for each.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: For a source to be credible, the material has to have gone through peer review and not involve payment for publication. The source should reject a sizable percentage of materials submitted to it, and the authors should have a certain level of credentials. Two possible sources of information are a scholarly journal such as The Journal of Applied Psychology and a web page. The Journal of Applied Psychology is credible because the editor first checks submissions to make sure they fit the journal’s mission and then sends them to people who are experts in the field for review. The journal has reviewer criteria such as the reviewers have to have expertise in the field, a certain degree of separation from the author, and the journal has a 91% rejection rate. A web page can be created by anyone. That person may have credentials or may not. Even if the author has significant credentials, he or she could just be expressing an opinion without any real evidence to back it up. The reader has to make decisions on the quality of the work and most people just accept what they read on face value. That is dangerous.
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