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Re:There are 25 votes for an inaccurate SO answer. Help me p... by timrobinson on Thursday February 03, 2011 @12:00PM (#2175463)
The answer just states that "it has been hypothesized", so technically it's correct. It doesn't claim whether this is true; the answerer needs "a reliable cross-browser, multi-document benchmark" in order to do that.

Besides, if I worried about every wrong-yet-accepted answer on StackOverflow, I'd be quite worried by now.

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Re:There are 25 votes for an inaccurate SO answer. Help me p... by yahelc on Thursday February 03, 2011 @12:10PM (#2175507)
Yes, I guess I could say "it has been hypothesized that the world was created in 6 days 5,000 years ago", and I wouldn't be wrong :)

Inaccurate-yet-accepted with 0-2 upvotes: Not damaging.

Inaccurate-yet-accepted with 25 upvotes: Has the potential to widely perpetuate false beliefs.

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