> Nice to know we are as accurate and more up-to-date than the competition. > I'd love to see further work done on the 2% of information where we > currently differ from the textbooks, hopefully most of that will just be > that the textbooks are out of date. But it would be good to have that > confirmed and any errors fixed. > > As for "The study authors recommend that patients use the PDQ site first > so > they are not inundated by complex information and hyperlinks". I'm not > sure > how dumbed down things have to be for ninth graders - but if I'm right in > assuming that ninth graders is American English for early teens > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_grade then I'm surprised they think > hyperlinks might be beyond them. Is it just possible that someone in the > medical profession is being patronising to the public here? > > WSC
It is difficult to balance the needs of the general public, which reads more at a 5th grade level than a 9th grade level, with the need to present comprehensive information that would be of use to an oncologist. If we addressed this problem in a systemic way we would present alternate articles at differing levels of comprehensiveness and readability. Perhaps in the future. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
