Hi James, I finally found time to read the whole article carefully. It is a very well done article and study, in my opinion.
I have one remark/question. Since the study was conducted over a length of time (April 2014 to December 2016), was the data analyzed to see if the increase in the results of good answers in the posttest was higher later during the study (or not) since Wikipedia (and maybe UpToDate, I am not familiar with that resource) evolves with time? Maybe even students who participated in the first iteration of this study went after to improve the related Wikipedia articles, thus obviously having an impact on the results since the information about the specific questions that you retained for the MCQ were "directly" answered on Wikipedia. Is this something that was considered? I do not see that consideration in the discussion section of the article. Thank you, JP On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 4:37 AM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > That bit of the paper could have been a bit clearer. I simple > downloaded 100 questions at random from a website that hosts lists of > exam question. Am checking with Samir regarding if he did any further > selection beyond that. > > James > > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 2:30 AM, pajz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 31 October 2017 at 17:09, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Full study available under an open license at > >> https://mededu.jmir.org/2017/2/e20/ > > > > > > If one gets to chose the questions and assemble the questionnaire then > > shown to all study participants, I would submit that more or less > arbitrary > > study results can be generated by, consciously or subconsciously, picking > > the "right" questions. Curiously, the two people that "reviewed" the > > questions here were "a Wikipedia editor and administrator," and a > > "long-term volunteer editor and administrator of Wikipedia" and "founder > of > > [...] the Wiki Project Med Foundation." > > > > Not being negative or anything, but if you're trying to scientifically > > evaluate whether a given exam prep book improves students' grades, would > > you let the editors of the book prepare the test exam? > > > > Best, > > Patrik > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Jean-Philippe Béland [image: Wikimedia Canada] Vice-président — Wikimédia Canada <https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?uselang=fr>, chapitre national soutenant Wikipédia Vice president — Wikimedia Canada <https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?uselang=en>, national chapter supporting Wikipedia 535 avenue Viger Est, Montréal (Québec) H2L 2P3,[email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
