Validating Sources
Site #1: Debt and Assets Among Low-Income Families
www.nccp.org/pub_aad03.html
I found this website as a valid site because it fit the criteria of a good site.
I looked at the URL and found that the website is a site and not a personal page. In addition, the site was an .org and not a com., and the website is published by The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, so the website is published by a entity that makes sense.
I scanned the perimeter of the page and found some valuable information. The author of the page is Robert Wagmiller, and the website was published in the year 2006, so the information is pretty recent. The credential on this site are very good because I truncated the site to the original site that the site was published on, and found the website comes from The National For Children and Poverty.
The source is well documented and the information looks complete. In addition, the information does not look forged or is second hand information. The website did not have any links. The information did not seem to be bias or did not take other viewpoints.
I found that other people agree with me about this website. The major search engines that linked to this program are ask.com, yahoo.com, google.com, and vivisimo.com. I googled the author and found that the author majored in Sociology, so he would know about family debt.
All this information adds up to a valid source because the site was made to inform people about family debt and it did. In addition, the site gave statistical information family debt.
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Site #2: Survey Says Families Are Digging Deeper Into Debt
www.stlouisfed.org/publication/re/2006/c/pages/digging.html
The website is a site and not a personal page. In addition, the URL is a .org. I truncated the URL to the original site and found that the site is published by The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, so the website is published by an entity that makes sense.
I scanned the perimeter of the page for validation and found some critical information. The website had a author (Kevin L. Kliesen) and was not a email. The website was published in the year 2003, so the information is not too far back. In addition, the sources are well documented. The sources were on the side were they were they could be visible seen, and the references looked well documented. The information to me looked well documented and did not look forged. The website only had one link, and it was to the main page that published the article, and the link did work. The viewpoints did not look bias or did not have other viewpoints.
What do others say? I found that a couple website that link to this page. In addition, I used a couple major search engines and found this page was well documented; google.com, yahoo.com, ask.com, and vivisimo.com. I looked up the author and found that he had a M.A. in Economics, so he would know about families digging into debt.
Does it all add up? The page was put up to inform people about families digging deeper into debt. All in all the site is pretty valid.