Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:55:31 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?)) Message-ID: <20070425085531.5998728b.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20070425124847.GB19653@saltmine.radix.net> 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>
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In response to Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:31:53AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > (of course, everyone knows that Wikipedia is the ultimate source of > > information and is infallible, right?) > > hardly. I'd expect that most intelligent readers would have encountered > at least one wikipedia article which is inaccurate. Like any source > of information, it's only a starting point. Hmm ...I suppose I should have explicitly marked that comment as sarcasm. I simply expected that people would understand that such a ridiculous remark could only be tongue-in-cheek. 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. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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