Stakeholder #3

In this post I'll be analyzing the role of my last category of stakeholders.

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1. My last stakeholder comes in a group, but a smaller group. This is the group of people who are trying to explain why different people see different colors in the dress. They communicate with us primarily online, not through twitter as our last group but through scientific articles. They have different websites with varying credibilities and opinions with varying validity, which I will analyze briefly. They come from Mashable, The Guardian, and Wired online news sources. Mashable seems a lot like Buzzfeed- with some political articles that hold water but also links that say things like "20 potatoes that look like Channing Tatum". The Guardian has more political and intellectual articles, but still contains an article on the same subject of Beyoncé's new single that Mashable had. Wired is a technology and science based online magazine which has less of a Beyoncé focus and more of a focus on things like space and Amazon Echo. It has the best credibility of the three. 

2. The three claims that my three different science sources make are as follows:

1. The dress looks gold and white because it's overexposed -Mashable
2. The kind of light that a person is exposed to the most is a factor in which color combination they see. - The Guardian
3. The color combination depends on which side of the chromatic bias your brain automatically discounts. - Wired

3. I think the level of credibility in each claim varies. Based on the sources, citations and credibilities, I think that the sources are least to most credible from start to finish. Mashable's authors have no credentials or other articles that I could find. The Gaurdian's claims of light exposure don't seem to be as thoroughly rooted in science and the appeal more to emotions than those of Wired. 

4. These claims are both similar and different from each other. Mashable's claim of exposure is completely different from The Guardian or Wired. The latter two are a little similar- The Guardian references chromatic bias, but does not cover it as extensively as Wired. However, they don't have anything in common with other stakeholders, as this is the only group who has offered a reason why different people see different colors. But within the group, they differ.