Showing posts with label crap detection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crap detection. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Crap Detection 101

Amateur Whale Research Kit?
Howard Rheingold is credited with Crap Detection 101: How to tell accurate information from inaccurate information, misinformation, and disinformation.

Put your crap detector to work here: http://www.icrwhale.net/products/amateur-whale-research-kit

Some of the usual investigative techniques (backlinks, fact checking) don't work very well. What is it that "tells" you this information, at face value, cannot be trusted?