Wnen is credibility more important, and when is it less important? Support your answers with specific examples

What questions might you ask in order to determine the credibility of online sources?|||Whenever you do research you want to check for credible facts. Anyone can post anything he wants on the Internet, but not everything we read is true. Some so-called facts may be partially true, without being outright falsehoods. In politics, we call this a "gaffe," but most honest people would call them "lies."





Credibility doesn't matter in fiction. My space ship can fly at 1,000 times the speed of light and nobody cares.





Credibility always matters in non-fiction. Even when looking for support for an opinion, it is important to consider the source.





Most people would consider the New York Times a more credible newspaper than The National Enquirer. Why? the former is made up of mostly well-educated reporters and it has a history of looking for the truth. The latter has a history of looking for sensational stories which are seldom well-documented.





Ask, who wrote this? What evidence does the author give? What does he or she wish to gain? Who is paying for this?|||Let me start out by asking...do you know what the word 'Credibility' means? Credibility is a word that, in essence, means whether something is believable or not.





For example... how would you prove someone's 'Credibility' to show others whether the things they were saying were true or not? It could also mean the difference between whether a person is found innocent or guilty in a court case and possibly if they have to go to jail or not.





To answer the second part of your question, to find the credibility of online sources, you can use your web browser search and then, after viewing the short description about that website, you can ask yourself specific questions as to how that might be used to fit your needs of what you are trying to search for.





For example, you are searching for information about 'Trees'. You can look up 'Trees' and find, literally, hundreds of websites about them. You need to ask what it is that you are looking for, specifically, and then, look for things that are related to what it is that you need to find out and start from the first website and work your way down the list until you are satisfied that you have the information you need.





As for the 'Credibility', you will have to visit a couple of different websites and see if you can find a common link that each website will have and go from there to form your own opinions and conclusions.