Chapter 01 Homework - Chapter 1 Homework Information Enter...

Chapter 1 Homework - Information
Enter your answers to the questions below in a word processor. Then log
into Blackboard and enter your answers in the appropriate web page
accessed from the Homework folder. Bring your printout to class for
discussion and save it until you see your grade in OPE.
Consider the four definitions of information presented in this chapter. The
problem with the first definition, "knowledge derived from data," is that it
merely substitutes one word we don't know the meaning of (information) for
a second word we don't know the meaning of (knowledge). The problem
with the second definition, "data presented in a meaningful context," is that
it is too subjective. Whose context? What makes a context meaningful? The
third definition, "data processed by summing, ordering, averaging, etc.," is
too mechanical. It tells us what to do, but it doesn't tell us what information
is. The fourth definition, "a difference that makes a difference," is vague and
unhelpful.