On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:25:24 +0100, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/22/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
As long as they keep saying "According the Wikipedia" then I guess it's a good thing. If they start stating it as fact then the world is in a lot of trouble... (or, a lot *more* trouble, if you prefer).
Have no fear. They have whole departments whose job it is to ensure that data's source and credibility are properly noted.
Most of the people at intelligence agencies spend far, far more time analyzing data than gathering it, and the data source and credibility are important.
I think the whole Iraqi WMD fiasco showed that no amount of quality asurance by the intelligence agencies will prevent politicials from giving undue weight to the sources that provide information they want to hear, regardles of the credebility of said source...