What is the difference between "accurate" information in a document and "believable" information?

As part of some research I am doing on measuring documentation quality, I have come across the terms "accurate" and "believable" as two separate dimensions of information quality.

But the differences between them are not clear at all to me: they define accurate as "correct, reliable, and certified free of error" and believable as "true, real, and credible".

So I'm putting this out here - what is the difference between these two dimension as they relate to documentation quality?

The original source is here: Wang R. & Strong, D. (1996). Beyond accuracy: what data quality means to data consumers. J. of Man. Info. Sys., 12 (4), p.5-34)

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