Validity and reliability of secondary sources (1 Viewer)

[Munkiie]

I'm having trouble answering these questions... Please help

a) identify data sources and evaluate the validity of the secondary info in relation to your chosen non-infectious disease

b) assess the reliability of your secondary info and the data that you have obtained in the relation to your chosen non-infectious disease

The disease I've chosen is Down syndrome

Thanks in advance!

 

[Smile12345]

Do you understand the words 'validity' and 'reliability'... This could help...

 

[yasminee96]

I won't give you any answers because i didn't do down-syndrome, but i'll tell you how i've learnt to evaluate validity and reliability of secondary resources.
Basically, for reliability, ask yourself "how consistent is the information with information from other sources such as textbooks, teachers etc.?" Of course, if it is at most consistency, it's reliable. If your source is a textbook, look at the publish date, and check to see if it's recent, and it's the most up to date edition of the textbook. Generally text books are checked before being released multiple times If it's a website, .gov or .edu are usually reliable, however .com and .org etc. aren't usually, considering they usually have biased opinions

In terms of validity, ask yourself "how did i gather this info? Does the info i've obtained from this resource answer the aims and/or relate to my hypothesis?" It is, simply put, the relevance of the data to the investigation

 

[Munkiie]

Ohhh that just makes it so much easier to answer these questions.
Thanks a lot! However I don't know if that would be enough to gain 4marks for a, and 3marks for b