Saturday, November 21, 2009
Basically in summation, Quality Assurance Literacy is providing accurate and reliable information. We can take a presentation, pretty it up with power point, attach links to websites and photo shop pictures but what is being presented? Is it reliable, factual or even relevant? Do people actually verify the information they obtain from the world wide web? Or do they accept it as fact because the website is pretty? So by what means do we use to check the quality of the information we are using?
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ReplyDeleteBased on my experience, sometimes it is a really complicated process to verify and confirm the information on a website. I remember receving an article by email once, which I forwarded on. I was corrected by two people that said essentially that the article had been proven to be a myth some time ago. Sometimes it is best not to forward emails that include web-based information until you have researched the truth. I was a little embarassed as it was no different than spreading a rumor.
ReplyDeleteI have similar experience as Kelly's.It is like a habit for us to forward "interesting emails" to handreds of people in our contact list, while we have no idea whether the information in the email was true. And we are used to those emails, somehow just regard them as jokes.
ReplyDeleteThere's a website called Snopes (I think is its name) where you can go to test out a email's truthfullness. I've never done it, but I've heard people say that a certain email that is going around has been proven false by this website.
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