By Vipul Naik
Cross-posted from Quora
As part of research that my collaborator
Why might that be? Possible explanations:
- The children who use the products themselves aren’t old enough or mature enough to write first-person reviews.
- Publications are targeted at adults, so children’s stuff isn’t that interesting to them.
- Any other explanations?
Here are some of the resources we looked at (many are listed on ourpage; others are listed elsewhere on )
- Those that have Wikipedia pages: ( ), ( ).
- Those that are widely used but don’t have Wikipedia pages: , , , , , .
- Those that aren’t so widely used, albeit we think they should be: , .
It’s also noteworthy that almost none of the best books aimed at young people have Wikipedia pages, although it’s common for Wikipedia to have pages on books aimed at adults. For instance, Arthur Engel’s Problem-Solving Strategies is a widely used book for contest mathematics, but neither the book nor the author makes it to Wikipedia.
Even resources that do receive some press coverage generally receive very little. For instance, the about scarcely does justice to College Confidential’s stature as a go-to resource for information about college admissions.