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Kunsusuki Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Is it correct?

Hi.
Is the below sentence semantically correct? Because it seems to me contradicting.
The information that is the result of selective attention or periods of inattention will not be properly encoded.
Thank you in advance.
  

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I don't think it's self-contradictory. It's just sloppy. Information is independent of the people who are documenting it.

— Deadrat

  • I don't think it's self-contradictory.
  • It's just sloppy.
  • Information is independent of the people who are documenting it.
  • ) So information cannot be the result of attention or its lack.
  • " "Selective attention" is paying attention only to certain things; "inattention" is not paying attention at all.
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I don't think it's self-contradictory. It's just sloppy. Information is independent of the people who are documenting it. (Which is what I assume "encoded" means here.) So information cannot be the result of attention or its lack.

"People who don't pay attention will not properly encode the data."

"Selective attention" is paying attention only to certain things; "inat
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deadratSo information cannot be the result of attention or its lack.
How did you come up with this result?
deadrat"Selective attention" is paying attention only to certain things; "inattention" is not paying attention at all. It seems odd to have to mention both.
This is my point. If it were not of that phrase "selective att
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kunsusukiHow did you come up with this result?
Information may be defined in various way, e.g., by the probability of a message being received. But the information content of data does not disappear because the recipient isn't paying attention. That information may be lost, but it's the loss that's the result of inattention, not the data itself.

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