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88 Post author: Academian 19 November 2010 01:53AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 19 November 2010 08:33:38AM 22 points [-]

It is hard to admit that finding out most factual information is an outright trivial task these days and that most of what they had initially believed to be critical for rigorous research at the highschool level is now strictly inferior to reading wikipedia.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 19 November 2010 07:46:52PM *  19 points [-]

If they can't stop students from using Wikipedia, pretty soon schools will be reduced from teaching how to gather facts, to teaching how to think!

Comment author: h-H 25 November 2010 11:15:12PM *  3 points [-]

I'm curious, have you used Wikipedia for non-scientific/technical stuff? it can be quite a biased source there..

Comment author: lessdazed 21 July 2011 06:08:51AM 2 points [-]

Reading the discussion pages there can help with this problem.