Unit 3 · Lesson 3• 23 min

Evaluating Source Quality

Today's lesson

Not all sources deserve equal weight in a…

Quick Check

1. Which of these most strongly signals a high-quality academic source?
2. A scientific theory that is compatible with any possible observation, with nothing that could ever count against it, is described as:

Answer all 2 questions to check.

A challenge round will appear here shortly.

Takeaway

Explicitly compare source quality out loud in speeches — peer review, expertise, and falsifiability are concrete…