Royal Deer Design » research http://www.royaldeerdesign.com Web Design Company Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:08:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Quality of Wikipedia http://www.royaldeerdesign.com/2010/06/quality-of-wikipedia/ http://www.royaldeerdesign.com/2010/06/quality-of-wikipedia/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:03:16 +0000 http://coot.arvixe.com/~royald/?p=2222 Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University checked the accuracy of information on the popular open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia with that on the National Cancer Institute’s Physician Data Query. PDQ is a professional database that is peer-reviewed and edited. Both sources were fact-checked against textbooks. The final conclusion: Wikipedia is accurate but poorly written.

Results shows that Wikipedia is not worse than the professional website. Only 2% of the information on either was different than in textbooks. However, it is interesting that researchers found that Wikipedia’s information was written at a higher level of complexity than the professional PDQ.

The study says that Wikipedia is as accurate source of information as a professionally reviewed resource.

]]> http://www.royaldeerdesign.com/2010/06/quality-of-wikipedia/feed/ 0 No quantity, but quality matters http://www.royaldeerdesign.com/2010/03/no-quantity-but-quality-matters/ http://www.royaldeerdesign.com/2010/03/no-quantity-but-quality-matters/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:04:46 +0000 http://coot.arvixe.com/~royald/?p=2429 A group of researchers have been published a research paper which has proven that Twitter follower count is relatively an insignificant metric when it comes to determining influence. The researchers examined the Twitter accounts of millions active users. The conclusion is that accounts with the largest number of followers are not always related to their influence.

You can read more at: twitter.mpi-sws.org

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