On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
When I look at an article as an ordinary reader
looking for information
I mostly don't notice if it has been referenced...
I fall into the category satirised by XKCD (though I can't find the
strip, unfortunately): if a sentence has a little blue number at the
end of it I am satisfied that it is definitely true.
I really need to change.
But I certainly do notice if something is not referenced. Well, it's
more nuanced than that. If something has NO references, I tend to read
it without much critical judgement. If something is partially
referenced I tend to feel dubious about the whole enterprise. And that
shouldn't be.