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 Thu 22nd September 2011, 6:47pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Peter Imes: The accuracy of [b]Wikipedia[/b] The Commercial Dispatch I'm teaching a class on social media for Mississippi University for Women's Life Enrichment Program this semester. Our first class was Tuesday night, and we started by reviewing some staggering statistics: 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube ... View the article |
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Fri 23rd September 2011, 5:33pm
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Peter's a veritable statistician -- I wonder why he's stuck in the role of "Operations Manager" at the esteemed Columbus, Mississippi Dispatch?
QUOTE Nature reported, "Only eight serious errors, such as misinterpretations of important concepts, were detected in the pairs of articles reviewed, four from each encyclopedia." The researchers also found 162 "factual errors, omissions or misleading statements" in Wikipedia and 123 such errors in Britannica. A difference? Yes. A significant difference? Not really. |
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