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The quote by Benjamin Franklin that said,
"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see." My interpretation of this quote is don't take anyone's word for anything,
find out for yourself and if you see something that you might find wrong, it can be a misunderstanding.
Investigate the situation before believing it, then when you get
relevant information you can believe it. I agree with Benjamin Franklin quote because I feel that
everyone should investigate any question's they have instead of taking someone's word for it.
This one time, my bother told me that eating carrots are good for my vision but I wanted to find out
for myself. I found out that even though carrot are a good source of vitamin A
( which is important for healthy eyesight, skin, growth, and resisting infection), eating them won't
improve vision. So my research helped me figure out the truth about
carrots. I read article's about false information on wikipedia.com
and it helped me realize that a lot of things on the internet can be false
and can misguide me on information. One of the article's,
mentions about a guy who's name was on wikipedia with false information about him. He said, "I have no idea whose sick mind conceived the false,
malicious "biography" that appeared under my name for 132 days on Wikipedia, the popular,
online, free encyclopedia whose authors are unknown and virtually untraceable."
At his request, executives of the three websites now have removed the false content about
him, but they don't know, and can't find out, who wrote the toxic sentences about him.
I watched a video
about a man that was driving his work truck and noticed a nice car parked on his
driveway. Out of curiosity the man looks through his window because he felt as of something was
suspicious, only to find his wife hugging another man. The man that just got home from work then goes back to
the car and does damage to it then walks back to the window to find out the man inside his
house was giving his wife a cash prize. This story is very ironic and it also
is a good way to recognize Benjamin Franklin's quote "Believe none of what you hear and half of
what you see", because before the man took action's he should have
found out what was going on inside. It could have even been a family member or an old friend. Point is, believe half of what
you see and don't just assume and accuse someone
without having enough information to determine weather that person is wrong or not.
Internet encyclopedias go head to head, Britannica
and Wikipedia are online encyclopedias being compared in this article. Both sites in my opinion are good sources of information,
but statistics say that both have potential problems. In the magazine "Nature" an expert-led investigation peered a review to compare
Wikipedia and Britannica's coverage of science. This exercise revealed a bunch of errors in both encyclopedias. They tested 42 entries
and both had about that same amount of inaccuracies, Wikipedia had four and Britannica had three mistakes. Wikipedia's co-founder
and president, Jimmy Wales said "Our goal is to get to Britannica quality, or better." Wikipedia has become very successful over it's years
and continues to improve in it's decreasing of accuracies and Wikipedia has become the 37th most visited website, according to Alexa, a web ranking service.
I personally use Wikipedia a lot on a regular day basis to find information on anything that comes to mind.
Britannica questions Nature magazine about their reports on
the encyclopedia and also accuse them of misrepresenting their own evidence. Britannica was accusing "Nature" of making up what they wrote about the encyclopedia
on their journal. Almost everything about the journal's investigation, from the criteria for identifying inaccuracies to the discrepancy between the article text
and its headline, was wrong and misleading," said Britannica. Basically, a lot of what "Nature" magazine posted was not true or exaggerated about Britannica. Then in December 2005
Nature published a article debating that Wikipedia was more accurate then Britannica's encyclopedia. A employee for Britannica spoke Florida Educational Technology Conference,in
defense of the accuracy and greater value of Britannica in front of Wikipedia.
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This had an impact on informative websites
because now you have to sign up and give your personal information in order to contribute information to the website. The man's name was
