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And not just numbers. The overwhelming majority of the times I look up a reference cited in a wikipedia article, it turns out to not at all support the wikipedi
by yesenadam 5y ago
And not just numbers. The overwhelming majority of the times I look up a reference cited in a wikipedia article, it turns out to not at all support the wikipedia text. Very often, when the wikipedia text seems murky, whoever cited the reference didn't understand the source document at all. I guess numbers never seem murky like that, so you don't get those same warning signs as with vague prose.
- marcosdumay 5y ago> The overwhelming majority of the times I look up a reference cited in a wikipedia article, it turns out to not at all support the wikipedia text. That happens disturbingly often in scientific articles too. Mostly because people don't read many of their references at all.