Churchill & footnote accuracy

[michael perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

H-LABOR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 6/22/2003
 Laurie Wermter
 Reference Department
 Memorial Library University of Wisconsin-Madison
 wermter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 "about 30-45 percent of the footnotes in a published work will contain
an error of some kind, while about TEN percent of the total footnotes in
the published work will have an error so major as to prevent the cited
work from being found. My apologies for having mis-remembered the
figures, but the actual numbers of errors in footnotes are still quite
daunting."
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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