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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
