Validity, Credibility & Reliability Alicia Struck XBCOM/275 April 17, 2014 Daniel Anderson Validity, Credibility & Reliability Validity, credibility and reliability are key to any kind of data or information being used. Claims and their sources both need to be credible. Where the data came from needs to be taken into account. Do they have a vested interest in the outcome or the understanding to interpret said information? Reliability Having information be reliable means the data
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Helen Christine Smith Communication Process Model Misunderstanding example 1 1. Who was the sender? My boss of 1 day 2. Who was the receiver? Myself 3. What was the message? “Working in accounting department has some draw backs. One of these draw backs is that the first week of January is very critical. We really need your contribution tomorrow” 4. What was the channel used to send the message? Email 5. What was the misunderstanding that occurred? I felt that
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When conducting research for an essay or research the researcher must have evidence that supports their writing from sources that can back up their ideas. If I can’t seem to find something creditable, resourceful I will not use the source. A couple of courses back that most reliable sources for the internet are .Gov .Edu. .Org .Mil. Com. Something’s you should look out for who is the author of the website and if the author doesn’t have credentials then the source is not reliable. I like to look
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Validity, Reliability Equals Credibility Teresa McNally XBCOM/275 08/25/2013 Dr. Murad Abel Validity, Reliability Equals Credibility “The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument” (Maraboli, 2010). In order for an assessment to be sound, they must be free of bias and distortion. Reliability and validity are two concepts that are important for defining and measuring bias and distortion. To have the credibility that you deserve you have to have reliability and
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Validity, Credibility, and Reliability Jannilka DeLeon XBCOM/275 June 1, 2014 Monica Galante Validity, Credibility, and Reliability Some reasons I consider data or information to lack validity, credibility, or reliability is when there is no supporting evidence. When you read something and it is not coming from a credible source than you now that the information provided is not accurate. Especially when doing research for a project, the information you use in your research should have
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Theme: Assessing Research Performance There are three focus areas in assessing research performance: reliability, validity, and credibility. Reliability itself defined as the degree to which a measure yields consistent results. Validity means the degree to which a study accurately reflects or assesses the specific concept that the researcher is attempting to measure. Credibility means a researcher’s ability to demonstrate that the object of a study is accurately identified and described based
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idea is regarding illegal aliens in the workplace along with illegal aliens not paying taxes. The rebuttal will consist on ideas on how the topic is not accurate in its findings. The author of the article will be analyzing to find reliability, credibility, and validity. Fallacies in the article will be discussed as well. The article talks about how illegal aliens are unskilled workers who get paid off the books for laborer. Thus creating a larger community of people receiving
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Validity,Credibility, & Reliabilty XBCOM275 Feb 8, 2013 Validity, Credibility, & Reliability When seeking out the validity, credibility, and reliability of a source there can be a vast array of sources to compare when seeking this answer. For example, when validating a source we can research the author and his or her background pertaining to the data in question. Data within a claim can be meant to sway the reader one way or the other, with this in mind, I look at who and what there
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Introduction In my homeland country, in the mid 90s there was a general election and according to a particular popular pole and surveys a certain political party would have won a landslide election victory. To everyone's surprise, they lost the election badly. This goes to show that biasness/unreliable data is known to throw things out of perspective and give people false hope. The results of that particular election caused rioting for several weeks. Once this phenomenon comes into
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Breana Webb and her friends over the weekend leading to her death at the hands of a drunk driver early on Monday morning. This article will analyze the reliability, credibility, and validity of the data used by Ms. Butow. It will also illustrate the logical fallacies in Ms. Butow’s argument. First we will analyze the author’s reliability and validity of data. In this instance they can be judged together. The data used and quoted by Ms. Butow is taken directly from Ms. Webb’s Twitter account and
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