What's the difference between information and misinformation?

Information


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.
  • (v. t.) News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.
  • (v. t.) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
  • (2) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
  • (3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (4) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (5) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (6) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (7) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (8) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
  • (9) They suggest that an endogenous retinoid could contribute to positional information in the early Xenopus embryo.
  • (10) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
  • (11) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (12) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
  • (13) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
  • (14) Current information suggests that arachidonic acid metabolites are involved in the development of cholecystitis.
  • (15) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
  • (16) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (17) Much information has accumulated on the isolation and characterization of a heterogeneous group of molecules that inhibit one or more of the bioactivities of interleukin 1.
  • (18) This can be achieved by sincere, periodic information through the mass media.
  • (19) Then, the informed permission of parents should be obtained.
  • (20) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.

Misinformation


Definition:

  • (n.) Untrue or incorrect information.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
  • (2) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
  • (3) The subjects' responses revealed their lack of information as well as a great deal of misinformation.
  • (4) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (5) Twenty of the girls knew how conception occurs and 24 knew about modern methods of contraception, although none was used; many of them were misinformed.
  • (6) Nutrition misinformation wastes billions of dollars every year but the greatest harm occurs when needed medical intervention is delayed or ignored.
  • (7) The most important finding was the considerable misinformation about and noncompliance with malaria prophylaxis.
  • (8) A total of 376 (25.1%) questionnaires were filled out incorrectly and 63 of these (16.8%) had major misinformation about medical history.
  • (9) Their refusal to condemn him reinforces myths and misinformation about rape – they don't seem to understand that the law is very clear that if someone is too drunk or otherwise incapacitated to consent, it is rape."
  • (10) Yet by reassuring the public that things aren't too bad, Monbiot and others at best misinform, and at worst misrepresent or distort, the scientific evidence of the harmful effects of radiation exposure – and they play a predictable shoot-the-messenger game in the process.
  • (11) He acknowledged there had been "failures" and that there was "misinformation and misunderstanding" surrounding the bill.
  • (12) Nutrition knowledge and misinformation, supplement use, and sources of nutrition information were also investigated.
  • (13) "As global action on climate change deepens, propaganda aimed at misinforming the public about climate change, and so blunting any action, increases."
  • (14) Blair is already facing a backlash from Conservative ministers and some on the remain side for arguing that people were misinformed when they voted for Brexit.
  • (15) These highly fragmented replied with the characteristics of misinformation about AIDS are also compatible with situations that could carry risks for the laborers.
  • (16) All that said, there are still some basic facts to contend with that do suggest many Republican voters believe things that are either misinformed or absurd or both.
  • (17) Nevertheless, social media is open to misinformation, baseless rumours, hate speech and conspiracy theories.
  • (18) They point to Education for health as a means for health professionals to prevent problems arising from misinformation to people under medical attendance.
  • (19) Earlier on Tuesday, one of the leading legislative critics of the NSA's bulk surveillance on Americans' phone records, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, attacked both the surveillance and what he described as a "culture of misinformation" by administration and intelligence officials about it.
  • (20) From the very nature of monitoring physiological quantities there will be much misinformation or 'noise' superimposed on the raw signal obtained from the patient.

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