Date post: | 11-Jan-2016 |
Category: |
Documents |
Upload: | mitchell-hines |
View: | 216 times |
Download: | 0 times |
Wikipedia: Measuring Stability
Matthew C. SkinnerSewanee: University of the South
Sewanee, Tennessee
#0353637
Outline
- Introduction
-What is C redibility
- Measuring Credibility
- Stability
- Measurement
- Concluding Remarks
Introduction: What is Credibility?
Introduction: What is Credibility?
1. The quality, capability, or power to elicit belief.
2. A capacity for belief: a story that strained our credibility.
Taken from Dictionary.com
Introduction: What is Credibility?
believability, chance, integrity,
likelihood, plausibility, possibility,
probability, prospect, reliability,
satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness,
soundness, tenability, trustworthiness,
validity
Taken from Dictionary.com
Introduction: What is Credibility?
- Not Concrete
- Not Defined
- Why?
Introduction: What is Credibility?
Credibility is a perceived notion.
Credibility is a quale.
Introduction: What is Credibility?
Credibility is a perceived notion.
Credibility is a perceived quale.
What is a quale?
Each person has their own conceptual framework.
Introduction: What are Qualia?
Formal Definition by Daniel Dennett:
1.) ineffable; that is, they cannot be
communicated, or apprehended by any
other means than direct experience.
Pulled from
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
Introduction: What are Qualia?
2.) intrinsic; that is, they are non-
relational properties, which do not change
depending on the experience's relation to
other things.
Pulled from ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
Introduction: What are Qualia?
3.) private; that is, all interpersonal
comparisons of qualia are systematically
impossible.
Pulled from ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
Introduction: What are Qualia?
4.) directly or immediately apprehensible
in consciousness; that is, to experience a
quale is to know one experiences a quale,
and to know all there is to know about that
quale.
Pulled from ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
Introduction: What is Credibility?
Credibility is a perceived notion.
Credibility is a quale of reality
How do we make sense of credibility ?
Background: Dividing Credibility
Trustworthiness and Expertise – a matter of degree.
Background: Dividing Credibility
Trustworthiness and Expertise – a matter of degree.
Trustworthiness- how truthful and
unbiased a source is.
Background: Dividing Credibility
Expertise - the degree of competence and knowledgeability of a source.
The the more trustworthy and more expert a source is the more credible it becomes.
Background: Dividing Credibility
- Presumed
- Reputed
- Surface
- Experience
Measuring Credibility: Internet
Two methods:
Manual – human assessment
Automatic – computer assisted
Measuring Credibility: Manual
- Ease of information verification
- Brick and Mortar
- Credentials
- Personable
- Ease of contact
Measuring Credibility: Manual
- Site Design
- Ease of use
- Recent content
- Little or no ads; no pop-ups
- No typos, or typographical errors
Measuring Credibility: Automatic
- Quantify and measure the criteria for a credible website.
- Use metadata to determine the overall condition of the document.
Measuring Credibility: Wikipedia
- Each article has a history page describing the date, time, and identity of the editor.
- The identity is either a username or an IP address.
Measuring Stability: Wikipedia
- The frequency of edits help determine an article’s stability.
- Stability is how much an article changes over time.
- Stability alone does not determine an article’s credibility.
Measuring Stability: Wikipedia
Assumption: the more stable an article the more credible the article is.
Measuring Stability: Wikipedia
Assumption: the more stable an article the more credible the article is.
What is a stable article?
Measuring Stability: Wikipedia
What is a stable article?
- Not a simple answer.
- External Influences
- Temporal
Measuring Stability: Wikipedia
Protection: Semi or Full
Measuring Stability: Wikipedia
Real World Events
- Natural Disasters
- Web Links
- Mainstream media
Measuring Stability: Wikipedia
Articles tend to increase on the number of edits over time.
Possible Reasons: - Wikipedia has gained popularity
- The article has gained more interest
Concluding Remarks
- Credibility is a perceived notion and a quale. - Measuring credibility- humans or computer - Stability is how much an article changes over time.
- Improvement: include content change
Acknowledgements
I appreciate the following for their help:
- Carolina Eastman - John Bowles - Libby Alford - Roxanne Spray - Chaitanya Evani
I also thank NSF for their funding