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11-25-2009, 01:45 PM
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Common Knowlege....
When does something cease to be uncommon? I took a plagiarism quiz and missed a question. I marked it as "common" knowledge. So is there some kind of update I am missing as to what is common knowledge today? How am I supposed to know what everyone knows, as opposed to what they don't know?
Shall I just give reference to everything just assuming they know nothing? Just to be sure? The question still stands-when does knowledge become common? Who is this "everyone" that knows this knowledge?
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11-25-2009, 02:01 PM
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11-25-2009, 02:56 PM
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No I seriously had to take a plagiarism quiz for school.........It hasn't been funny so far....
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11-25-2009, 04:01 PM
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Heh! I just figure that whatever I know is common knowledge.
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11-25-2009, 04:06 PM
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Now I'm curious, what was the plagiarism quiz like?
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11-25-2009, 04:30 PM
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I also vote to see a plagiarism quiz.
But in the meantime, common knowledge (aka received wisdom) is for me a euphemism for urban legend, or cliche. We have a whole quiz show based on it here, called QI. Unfortunately, despite the questions and answers of the host being properly researched, during the first series the panel's additional comments were not checked before broadcast, and a lot of guff seeped through. I watched it aghast, and decided the object of the show was simply lying for fun. I'm glad to say it's tightened up a lot now. I still check snopes for anything I consider fishy though. BTW - did you know the American who bought London Bridge thought he was buying Tower Bridge and didn't find out his mistake til after he paid to have it shipped all the way home? Stupid Yank, hahahaha.
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11-25-2009, 04:47 PM
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some people should die......
that's just unconscious knowledge bah dum bah dum bah dum bum bump bumm
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11-25-2009, 05:26 PM
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There are two different types of 'common knowledge'. One is 'common knowledge' which most people know. The other is a more specific academic application in which something is 'common knowledge' within that field. It's the latter that is relevant within a plagiarism test.
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11-25-2009, 07:13 PM
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I found a "common knowledge" quiz, not the one I took for school of course, but much like it!
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/site...edge_quiz.html Heh...I missed one on this one too!! lol!
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11-28-2009, 09:08 AM
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0 incorrect (0%) 0 unanswered (0%) I'm surprised. I didn't know there were hard and fast rules.
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11-25-2009, 07:25 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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10/10 :P
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11-25-2009, 07:30 PM
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10/10 here too. We must have the same common knowledge Dana.
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11-25-2009, 08:22 PM
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7/10. I'm terrible. See, I told you that if I know it I just assume everyone else does too.
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11-25-2009, 09:44 PM
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Yah that's what I think.....If I know it...Everyone else must have known it first! The last one to know...lol!
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11-28-2009, 01:45 AM
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This may be off topic but I was wondering something. Y'all know that if a mole(on your body) changes in shape or color, you should go to the doctor to have it checked out. I assumed this is common knowledge so I said to someone, "They say if a mole changes....(etc)...checked out." That person asked me, who are they? I was stumped.
 So, who are they or how should I have phrased the sentence, or am I simply saying it wrong?
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