More Information or More Data?: Some Experimental Findings
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- abstracts
- Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting
- Vol. 21 (1) , 25-28
- https://doi.org/10.1177/107118137702100106
Abstract
This paper reviews work which has investigated the relationship between the amount of information available to a decision maker and the quality of the resulting decision. Consideration is also given to research into the strategies employed by decision makers to cope with information overload. Some recent empirical results are presented which indicate that one must carefully distinguish between the amount of information and the amount of data given to the decision maker.Keywords
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