Question

Which is one determinant of a health source's credibility?

Answer 1

Hello @hallm

Answer 2

Are there any answer choices or is it a fill in?

Answer 3

there are answer choices

Answer 4

the researchers' ages

the journal's length

the date of publication

the health topic

Answer 5

Which one are you thinking?

Answer 6

maybe the health topic or the date of publication

Answer 7

I can help you out a bit with elimination.

A 30 year old who publishes an article can be wrong, same for a 50 year old or 90 year old. Age isn't a factor for credibility. Human intuition tells us that the older someone is, the smarter someone is (thus the more credible).

This however is not always correct. Same goes for journal length. Something with a lot of content must clearly be credible...right? Not exactly. It could be 100 pages of gibberish.

Answer 8

Good, you already eliminated those two. The health topic is an interesting one, but the credibility of the topic isn't based on the topic itself, but the content within the writing.

Answer 9

i think it will be the health topic

Answer 10

However, new information sometimes comes out about topics that have been previously written about. An article in 1990 about stretching may be improved upon or even corrected by a 2010 study. Thus the date can be an indicator of credibility since it has the most recent research and information.

Answer 11

^Which is new information not previously had by older studies.

Answer 12

ohh i understand now is it ok if i ask you one more question

Answer 13

Sure. Just close this one then open a new one.

Answer 14

ok thank you

Answer 15

The close button is up top by your question.