Having no information can sometimes be a horrible thing, but I beg to ask you, what is worse, not having information, or having incorrect information, or as I like to call it misinformation. The following is taken from wikipedia.org.
Misinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread unintentionally. It is distinguished from disinformation by motive in that misinformation is simply erroneous, while disinformation, in contrast, is intended to mislead.
Makkai proposes the distinction between misinformation and disinformation to be a defining characteristic of idioms in the English language. An utterance is only idiomatic if it involves disinformation, where the listener can decode the utterance in a logical, and lexically correct, yet erroneous way. Where the listener simply decodes the lexemes incorrectly, the utterance is simply misinformation, and not idiomatic.
Damian Thompson defines counter knowledge as “misinformation packaged to look like fact.” Using the definition above, this may refer to disinformation, as the motive is deliberate and often pecuniary.
In this post I am going to get into 2 situations where misinformation has caused not only time and money, but also emotional distress and all because CT is too lazy to update their website properly.
Currently the CT DMV doesn’t even accept live calls, you either need to use the website or you need to call and go through this maze of automated systems which gets you no where, and this is where my first rant and rave about ct and how not only are they corrupt, but they are lazy, outdated and have no care for the average citizen.
Misinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread unintentionally. It is distinguished from disinformation by motive in that misinformation is simply erroneous, while disinformation, in contrast, is intended to mislead.[1]
Makkai proposes the distinction between misinformation and disinformation to be a defining characteristic of idioms in the English language.[2] An utterance is only idiomatic if it involves disinformation, where the listener can decode the utterance in a logical, and lexically correct, yet erroneous way. Where the listener simply decodes the lexemes incorrectly, the utterance is simply misinformation, and not idiomatic.
Damian Thompson defines counterknowledge as “misinformation packaged to look like fact.”[3] Using the definition above, this may refer to disinformation, as the motive is deliberate and often pecuniary.
Incoming search terms:
- misinformation or no information
