: Re: What is the difference between "accurate" information in a document and "believable" information? As part of some research I am doing on measuring documentation quality, I have come across the

These terms come from the world of management information, data warehousing and data quality.
Accuracy is easy:

First, it has to be or the right value. Second, it has to precisely represent the value in consistent form in accordance with the business data model and architecture.

Believability is harder. It consists of the quality of the source and the quality of the processing, also called (data) provenance or lineage.
As with accuracy definitions in the field differ, a nice one is:

â€œthe extent to which data are
accepted or regarded as true, real and credibleâ€

Be assured that data quality has lots more dimensions. Some references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_quality www.learn.geekinterview.com/data-warehouse/data-quality/what-is-data-accuracy.html http://web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/wp/2007-11.pdf

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