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By Kevin Fogarty Add a new comment December 23, 2011, 4:31 PM — A pretty well executed content-mining analysis of Wikipedia adds some decent evidence that the ability to spell common words correctly is deteriorating even among the best-educated, ...



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What this study really did was demonstrate that Wikipedians have gotten dumber over time. Which is no surprise; after all, they've chased off all the intelligent editors. It says nothing about whether the general population is getting more orthographically challenged.
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