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''' | '''Historically information was scarce, now it is in overabundance. Our issue is now not so much getting the information but having so much of it we don't know what to trust. Wikipedia has tried to combat this by listing which sources a most reliable and excluding specific resources from the site:'''[[File:News hierarchy.jpg|alt=News hierarchy|center|960x960px|News hierarchy]] | ||
[[File:Corporate owners-media.png|alt=Oligo|thumb|'''Figure 2'''. Oligopolies of media.]] | [[File:Corporate owners-media.png|alt=Oligo|thumb|'''Figure 2'''. Oligopolies of media.]] | ||
[[File:Weighting hierarchy.png|alt=Weighting hierarchy|thumb|'''Figure 3'''. Scientific weighting hierarchy.]] | [[File:Weighting hierarchy.png|alt=Weighting hierarchy|thumb|'''Figure 3'''. Scientific weighting hierarchy.]] | ||
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== Critical Appraisal == | == Critical Appraisal == | ||
Primarily, the information | Primarily, the information we consume should be from unbiased sources. The closest and most abundant source of this are scientific journal articles. Articles go through an approval process, the editor receives an article then sends it out to other scientists, who provide feedback and recommend whether the paper should be published. This practice only became a requirement by most journals in the 1970s and ’80s and reduces poor science by: | ||
* reducing information overload by eliminating irrelevant or weak studies. | |||
* identifying the most relevant papers. | |||
* | * distinguishing evidence from opinion, assumptions, misreporting, and belief. | ||
* | * assessing the validity of the study. | ||
* | * assessing the usefulness and clinical applicability of the study. | ||
* | This is illustrated in '''Figure 3''' and is the key filtering technique that Burnzero uses to write articles. In fact on every page, at the bottom is a section named '''Reference''', by clicking on the link next to the individual referenced article ([1], [2], [3] etc) you will be taken to an abstract or full article which is only featured if it fits within the higher levels of this hierarchy. Therefore, no news sources are used, only verifiable scientific papers, the intention of this is to bring us closer to fact than fiction. | ||
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This is illustrated in '''Figure 3''' and is the key filtering technique that Burnzero uses to write articles. In fact on every page, at the bottom is a section named Reference, by clicking on the link next to the individual referenced article ([1], [2], [3] etc) you will be taken to an abstract or full article which is only featured if it fits within the higher levels of this hierarchy. Therefore, no news sources are used, only verifiable scientific papers, the intention of this is to bring us closer to fact than fiction. | |||