Information evaluation

by Capet, Philippe Delavallade, Thomas

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Full title :Information evaluation / edited by Philippe Capet, Thomas Delavallade.

Summary

During the reception of a piece of information, we are never passive. Depending on its origin and content, from our personal beliefs and convictions, we bestow upon this piece of information, spontaneously or after reflection, a certain amount of confidence. Too much confidence shows a degree of naivety, whereas an absolute lack of it condemns us as being paranoid. These two attitudes are symmetrically detrimental, not only to the proper perception of this information but also to its use. Beyond these two extremes, each person generally adopts an intermediate position when faced with the reception of information, depending on its provenance and credibility. We still need to understand and explain how these judgements are conceived, in what context and to what end. Spanning the approaches offered by philosophy, military intelligence, algorithmics and information science, this book presents the concepts of information and the confidence placed in it, the methods that militaries, the first to be aware of the need, have or should have adopted, tools to help them, and the prospects that they have opened up. Beyond the military context, the book reveals ways to evaluate information for the good of other fields such as economic intelligence, and, more globally, the informational monitoring by governments and businesses. - Publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wiley-ISTE
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxv, 300 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781848216594, 1848216599
oclc:ocn865246237
LC Classification:ZA3075
Dewey Decimal:020.0

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