Extra posting: what makes information reliable? Yun-Jin Kim

 People’s faith makes information reliable. I think it is not important that the information is REAL TRUE or not. What make information reliable is people’s mind.

 For an example, there’s many pseudo churches in Korea. Normal people think pseudo people believes in fake gods. But pseudo people don’t think their god is fake and don’t care what other people saying. They are NOT denying what people saying; the god pseudo people believe is fake, it is just they really believe in their god.

 Same as information. There’s always arguments about information; what is an exact truth.
“An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct”.

 Human minds always have opinions and their own beliefs. If the information is not same as their thoughts then human starts to deny the information to keep their own beliefs, thinking their opinion about something is correct.
 We should think carefully before taking information, the belief in our minds could influence taking information even though what you believe is not true.

 "What you believe is what you see."

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  1. UnknownApril 7, 2018 at 12:02 AM

    I agree with you whe you say that what make information reliable is people's mind. But in the case of Wikipedia people's mind does not count. One of the rules of Wikipedia is to not give your personal opinions and not take your beliefs into account when you are writing your article. Is the reason why forum and blogs are considered as non reliable sources.
    So for Wikipedia it is what is TRUE that really matter.

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