Half-life of knowledge
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title:
Half-life of knowledge
text:
The half-life of knowledge or half-life of facts is the amount of time that has to elapse before half of the knowledge or facts in a particular area is superseded or shown to be untrue. These coined terms belong to the field of quantitative analysis of science known as scientometrics. These ideas of half-life applied to different fields differ from the concept of half-life in physics in that there is no guarantee that the knowledge or facts in areas of study are declining exponentially. It is un
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encyclopedia
description:
Metric measuring the decay of knowledge
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge
date created:
2005-12-19T06:03:53Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T09:33:25Z
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