Mr. Keen also points out that Google search results — which answer "search queries not with what is most true or most reliable, but merely what is most popular" — can be manipulated by "Google bombing" (which "involves simply linking a large number of sites to a certain page" to "raise the ranking of any given site in Google's search results").
It's a Honda, so unlike the Toyota, it should be more than merely reliable but fun as well.
Cases like that — known as Gettier-cases[5] — arise because neither the possession of evidence nor origination in reliable faculties is sufficient for ensuring that a belief is not true merely because of luck.
He has had the temerity to point out that our search for instant wisdom through, say, Google and Wikipedia provides not necessarily what is most true or reliable - merely what is most popular.
Whereas a merely passive recorder of experience can be described as reliable, only an active, creative agent can be assessed as responsible or irresponsible, as having fulfilled her obligations to fellow enquirers, etc.
Being merely reliable does not fit the bill.
These theorists may distinguish mere reliability from trustworthiness on the grounds that people known or considered to be trustworthy have the power to betray us, whereas people known or considered to be merely reliable can only disappoint us (Holton 1994).
This method is merely reliable for cultivations where high filling volumes and low shaking frequencies are applied, e.g., for the cultivation of mammalian cells.
For this reason alone, meta-analysis will be with us for the foreseeable future, but clinicians and the media do need to learn what results are reliable, what are merely signals of possible effect, and what are associations without likely causation.
We need not assume that communication is reliable: message loss will merely slow down the algorithm, but does not affect its correctness.
Wombats feted with carrots may view people not as pals, or even as pets, but merely as reliable larders.
