Ah yes I remember that.

".com stands for commercial so it's about money so don't trust it!"

Oh, I've heard that from teachers both years ago and recently. Trust .gov or .edu over any .com... its soooo dumb.

kepford

Yeah, to me the issue isn't that people distrust Wikipedia, it's that they think it's less trustworthy than .gov or .edu.  I forgot where I saw it, but I think I saw something teaching kids how to write, and they said that ".gov" and ".edu" sources are more credible.

The sad thing is--to the extent that you want to 

 credible, that's probably correct, coz most people think that way.

 arrive at the truth, I don't automatically consider .gov or .edu more credible than anything else.

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k00b

Yeah, to me the issue isn't that people distrust Wikipedia, it's that they think it's less trustworthy than .gov or .edu.  I forgot where I saw it, but I think I saw something teaching kids how to write, and they said that ".gov" and ".edu" sources are more credible.

The sad thing is--to the extent that you want to *appear* credible, that's probably correct, coz most people think that way.

But if you want to *actually* arrive at the truth, I don't automatically consider .gov or .edu more credible than anything else.
