Can You Trust These Websites?

To determine if you can trust a website, look at the following factors:

Authority: Does a person or an organization take credit for the website? (Who?)

Content: Is the information accurate and complete? (What?)

Currency: Is a date given? If you need up-to-date information, is the site current enough? (When?)

Objectivity\bias: Is the purpose of the site to give you information or to influence your opinion? (Information? Opinion?)

Refer to these factors above as you evaluate the following websites. Then decide if you can trust the website.

1. Evaluate: http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html

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Can you trust this website?__________Why?_______________________________________________________________

2. Evaluate:  http://city-mankato.us

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Can you trust this website?__________Why?_______________________________________________________________

 3. Evaluate: http://www.dhmo.org/

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Can you trust this website?__________Why?_______________________________________________________________

4. Evaluate:http://www.whitehouse.gov

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Can you trust this website?__________Why?_______________________________________________________________