Saturday, March 10, 2012

Double Journal Entry #8- "Wikipedia"

a. Wikipedia is a web-based encyclopedia.
b. I would say not extremely reliable.  General information might be the only thing correct.
c. They put their faith in "wisdoms of crowds", hoping that the knowledge of many will weed out the wrong.
d. He believed more authority should be given to experts.
e. Self-interest editing by governments and prominent businesses is abuse.
f. It is a very wide-spread thing around the world and obviously somewhat trusted.
g. People are always looking for a quick answer, so the convenice of wikipedia outweighs the reliability.
h. It may show that their information is bias in some way.
i. It quickly rules out any information that seems to be coming from self-interest editing.

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