Lesson plan
Swipp
Swipp was a privately held company based in Mountain View, California that developed what it described as a social intelligence platform for collecting and aggregating user sentiment about topics and displaying it alongside structured reference data from Freebase. The service allowed users to rate topics on an 11-point scale (from −5 to +5). The aggregated score and related metrics were referred to by the company as the Swipp Index.
Article summary
Swipp was a privately held company based in Mountain View, California that developed what it described as a social intelligence platform for collecting and aggregating user sentiment about topics and displaying it alongside structured reference data from Freebase. The service allowed users to rate topics on an 11-point scale (from −5 to +5). The aggregated score and related metrics were referred to by the company as the Swipp Index.
Key claims
- date of foundation: 2013-01-23 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the date of foundation is "2013-01-23". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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