mountainous Information
This is lot of stuff to think over. Post By Atanu.
Am trying to make sense of the growing amount of information and how to cope for few months now…
here’s an excerpt from the writing:
if we produce no additional food, all together humans would finish the stock in three months. Or, a single human can therefore finish this in 1.5 billion years. But it is not so in the case of information. Each of us would take the estimated 18 billion years to finish the information we already have before we ask for more.
Clearly, for an average human, about 0.00000000001 percent of the total information stock is more than enough. About 99.9999999999 percent of the available information is worthless. So how does one go about searching out the teaspoonful of useful information from the oceans of available information. That is the challenge and therein lie the opportunities
I found another post discussing categorizing level of abstraction and could not resist posting here.
Benjamin Bloom created a taxonomy for categorizing level of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in educational settings. He said that there are six levels of abstraction.
Knowledge – When you can recall information
Comprehension – translate knowledge into new context i.e. summarize, describe, interpret
Application – use methods, concepts, theories in new situations
Analysis – seeing patterns i.e. explain, connect, classify
Synthesis – use old ideas to create new ones
Evaluation – compare and discriminate between ideas i.e. critique
