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Re: web site accuracy

>However, I think the proportion of errors is much higher than it is in books. <

By it's very nature the internet will be more error-filled than will books.

Books are, by and large, written by people who have some expertise in the subject, or in research methodology, and who have at least a modicum of reportorial skill.

The Net, on the other hand, is open to anyone with an ISP. And there are rarely an editors or fact checkers going over the work. So anything goes.

Even the so-called "reliable" sites may not be so. Very often, on a governmental or university site, you aren't reading the actual paper produced by an authority, but a summery of it, written by someone who may or may not understand what is being reported.

Thus, whenever possible, primary sources should be used.


Brook


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