Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:30:45 -0400 From: Lee Capps <lcapps@cteresource.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?)) Message-ID: <66681924-B13F-4E91-96BB-AE6FB92CEBF0@cteresource.org> In-Reply-To: <20070425085531.5998728b.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <01d301c78699$d6a36820$0300020a@mickey> <20070424140528.95287ff4.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <021201c7869f$ee90fd70$0300020a@mickey> <3ee9ca710704241144n4ab349c6m901586e427b1ae0d@mail.gmail.com> <021c01c786a0$fe7e5510$0300020a@mickey> <20070424145433.734761db.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <f0lrup$18a$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070424182027.33d16b28.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <f0n1ug$5p1$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070425083153.1cfa3a38.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070425124847.GB19653@saltmine.radix.net> <20070425085531.5998728b.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Apr 25, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > > A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME > guy) > describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false > information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research > assignment > that involved that information. Apparently the number of students who > trusted the false information without verifying it was quite high. I > should take that as a lesson that most people _don't_ know how to > verify > the validity of information and be more careful when I make sarcastic > statements. That's interesting, though, to pick a nit, it may just show that students were in a hurry, rather than that they necessarily trust the info or that they don't know _how_ to verify the info. --- Lee Capps Technology Specialist lcapps@cteresource.org
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