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Falling exam passes blamed on Wikipedia 'littered with inaccuracies'

• iamdave 18y ago
  "The group singled out online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows entries to be logged or updated by anyone and is not verified by researchers, as the main source of information" The irony in this is that if the group had done their research they would know this claim is false, and that Wikipedia essentially IS an entire community editors working around the clock to find inaccurate and even ambiguous details about anything posted to the site. Over the past century, academia has been reduced to this: pump out work for students to do, give them stringent guidelines, then be fully prepared to set expectations and standards without first making sure those standards are even attainable, if logically reasonable. Students will either fail to meet the obscene criteria, or break under pressure further lowering statistics of "success". Then you go on to realize some of the greatest scientific and technological contributions came from people who distanced themselves from academia, and you'll see how asinine the problem is.