5/21/2023 0 Comments Price of britannica encyclopedia![]() ![]() This is Britannica’s main claim to accuracy-it invites experts to write its entries, and then its small army of fact-checkers and editors make sure that everything is correct. Current, a historian who’s written several books about Lincoln (a fact I learned on Wikipedia Britannica offers only a two-line bio of Current). ![]() Britannica’s piece is written by Richard N. To see what I mean, let’s go back to that Lincoln entry. But even if it were true that Britannica is substantially more accurate than Wikipedia, why do you want your kids to learn in a cloistered ecosystem that’s separate from the rest of the media? In today’s news environment, you can’t blindly trust anything you see-you have to question everything for yourself. ![]() This is a dubious argument a study published in Nature in 2005 found that both Wikipedia and Britannica were good references, with each getting a similarly small number of facts wrong. ![]()
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