The Quality of Information and What We do with IT

I started my search using the Texas A&M Library as my main aid in finding a scholarly article to write about. I then searched the terms Information and Quality, after retrieving over a few hundred articles I then went through the ones that were related to my field of study the most. Then I searched through the Full Text tab to find whether or not it was a scholarly article or just some journal entry.
The article I choose was “Impact of information quality and decision-maker quality on decision quality: A theoretical model of simulation analysis”. The article is about how information technology (IT) is represented when talking about information quality and the decision making that comes as a result of it all. It says how the quality of decisions improves with higher information quality being that the person making the decision is knowledgeable. But if not then the reverse will happen and the will make a lesser decision with the increase of quality.
This is something that we bother with constantly and affects us in everything we do daily. We as a people make snap judgments on a subject that we don’t really know anything about, just received a brief summary of the topic. That makes for a very uneasy reassurance in peoples decisions on a day to day operations, based on they don’t know much about what they are saying.

Escaping Information Overload

            People in today’s world have a constant overload of information that they must sort through, prioritize, and then decide which to do first and so on.  This is the way of the world and for the moment and the foreseeable future it is not going to change. 

            It does however make you start to wonder what would happen to people if they didn’t have all that information to look at.  Most people have been doing it for so long that they would go insane from not doing it.

            Today, all I did was ride around with my grandfather and talk about the past and the timeline of my family history with him.  That was it, and it felt so good just to do almost nothing and not worry with the million things that I had due tonight.  But as time has shown I had to resort to juggling a million things and creating much more stress in my life. 

            This concept is not thought of by many because we are taught from an early childhood that if you aren’t doing something productive then you shouldn’t do it at all.  I believe that every needs to unwind and relax because if you don’t, then you will end up actually insane then just having a case of temporary insanity.

            So here is my challenge for you, stop everything at least once a month or even once a week, just go drive and don’t answer your phone or even look at it.  Leave it at home and just go anywhere from a park, lake, or somewhere where there are no people and just be you.