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Reliability

The International Encyclopedia of CommunicationPublished 5 June 2008
Klaus Krippendorff
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Abstract

Linguistically, the word “reliability” occurs in contexts of relying on something, for example, on one's tools, someone else's service, given measuring instruments, or data. In the conduct of science, the reliability of data is an important bottleneck for the construction of theories or scientific conjectures, and for giving reasonable advice.

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Decision Sciences