Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Wikipedia Fail

If anyone (students, pundits, etc.) ever wants some reasoning for why Wikipedia is not a credible source, here you go:

The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia.


I did not realize that Wikipedia aimed to be a conventional wisdom aggregator, even if the conventional wisdom is verifiably wrong. Wow.

3 comments:

g_rob said...

Another good one I found after reading the Wikipedia one: http://chronicle.com/article/A-Tech-Happy-Professor-Reboots/130741/

Hand Solo said...

Wow, that's interesting reading indeed. I guess you're not a green sky kind of guy either.

g_rob said...

This article (wikipedia) is now assigned reading for my AP class.