Re: Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis

>> The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but

>> among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not >> particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained >> around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three ... > I'm astonished that a 25% difference is considered "not particularly > great".

I'm astonished that something that can be explained by "jitter" of "plus/minus one count" in 'ordinal' numeric data, would be considered anything _other_ than "not particularly great". Well, unless they do not really understand statistical analysis, that is.

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Robert Bonomi
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