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I'm teaching a class on social media for Mississippi University for Women's Life Enrichment Program this semester. Our first class was Tuesday night, and we started by reviewing some staggering statistics: 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube ...



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Peter's a veritable statistician -- I wonder why he's stuck in the role of "Operations Manager" at the esteemed Columbus, Mississippi Dispatch?

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Nature reported, "Only eight serious errors, such as misinterpretations of important concepts, were detected in the pairs of articles reviewed, four from each encyclopedia."

The researchers also found 162 "factual errors, omissions or misleading statements" in Wikipedia and 123 such errors in Britannica. A difference? Yes. A significant difference? Not really.
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