Credibility of the Evidence for Reason Three

Our third step is to ask ourselves, "Is this evidence accurate?" This is perhaps the most difficult step in examining the evidence, simply because we can't always be sure of accuracy without having the writer's sources in front of us or without having experienced what she has experienced. In this case, as we have seen in the section on the credibility of this section, some of the evidence the writer offers is less "documentable" than other evidence she uses. For this reason, it would be reasonable to challenge the accuracy of some of her evidence if we considered it "questionable" in any way. However, it might be that (given the variety of sources she uses and the specificity of her examples) we would consider her evidence in this area to be entirely accurate.