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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Half of US Doctors Turn to [b]Wikipedia for Help[/b]
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Over the years, as more and more homes started getting access to computers and the Internet, a shift was recorded in the ...



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Milton Roe
QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Wed 29th July 2009, 5:22pm) *

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Half of US Doctors Turn to [b]Wikipedia for Help[/b]
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Over the years, as more and more homes started getting access to computers and the Internet, a shift was recorded in the ...

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Here is the 2006 Pew study, but I can find nothing in it about doctors and their internet habits, much less the idea that half of them look for medical knowledge in Wikipedia.

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2006/On...earch-2006.aspx

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2006/On...ndings.aspx?r=1
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GlassBeadGame
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Wed 29th July 2009, 7:22pm) *

QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Wed 29th July 2009, 5:22pm) *

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Half of US Doctors Turn to [b]Wikipedia for Help[/b]
[size="-1"]Softpedia

Over the years, as more and more homes started getting access to computers and the Internet, a shift was recorded in the ...

<a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&scoring=d&ncl=dRMUW6d23Eu-d9M" target="_blank"></a>


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Here is the 2006 Pew study, but I can find nothing in it about doctors and their internet habits, much less the idea that half of them look for medical knowledge in Wikipedia.

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2006/On...earch-2006.aspx

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2006/On...ndings.aspx?r=1


Well that's Wikipedian reasoning. The report doesn't mention that 1/2 of doctors rely on Wikipedia therefore the remaining 1/2 must rely on Wikipedia.
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