Examining Credibility

As part of this week’s reading tasks, we compared two texts about famous chemists. We were given five different texts and had to choose two to compare. I selected the texts from ‘UK University Guide – What To Study,’ and ‘Chemistry World Online Tournament Results.’ 

After looking at both texts, I compared things such as what biases the site might have, and where the information came from. Looking into these things, I realized that the first site seemed more reliable, as it is from a university site, which is expected to be correct information. Rather than the second one, as the results are from many people’s opinions on Twitter.

Another thing that influenced my decision included the fact that the information coming from the university site looks to be unbiased. But we could never know whether the people voting on the chemistry world online tournament have biases.