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A professor of mine defined things like this:
Data: raw numbers and text
Information: data filtered and summarized to extract the relevant pieces
Knowledge: new information fitted into existing knowledge in such a way
as to be meaningful in a wider context
Wisdom: Extrapolating trends in knowledge to synthesize new knowledge
Interesting that he didn't seem to consider intelligence to be particularly relevant to his model of learning. I would day that intelligence is a measure of how fast data can be transformed all the way into wisdom. Technology at present is very good at dealing with data and information, and is just starting to address knowledge, altho' it's far from commercially useful yet.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 6:52 PM
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I have a simplistic view of things:
Knowledge = ideas linked by associations, purely intellectual in nature. You can do the word association game re. these, quite fun.
Understanding = experience involving the whole person, including
movement,
emotions and intellect. So to understand, you must go through the
experience.
P.S. Are Orasoruses herbivores, or carnivores?
: )
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
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From: Don Granaman [SMTP:granaman_at_home.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 1:37 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: computer history stories - Now: IQ, etc.
Apologies for reviving a dead thread, but I was incommunicado
for a
just now saw this rather interesting thread. One of my pet
rants is
about
the difference between "knowledge" and "understanding". I am
not
sure of
the clinical definitions of the words used in this discussion,
but
will
offer this postulation, in IT terms.
"Knowledge" is essentially accumulated data.
"Understanding" is more like the ability to process data.
Of the two, understanding is far more valuable - and far more rare.
I once had a physics professor/mentor who "invented" the mathematical field
of product calculus to support his doctoral research in physics. (Note:
"product" calculus - multiplying infinitesimal bits of stuff,
not
adding. I
may be a geezer, but am not old enough to have studied under Newton!) The
mathematical community was suitably impressed and told him that
if
he would
write up all the proofs and do the formal theory, the Field's
medal
would be
a certainty. (There is no Nobel prize for Mathematics. The
Field's
medal
is the equivalent.) He replied that he was a tool user, not a
tool
maker -
that the only reason he did it was because appropriate tools did not
previously exist. He finished his doctorate in physics, others
did
the
mathematical background work, and nobody got the Field's medal
for
product
calculus.
The moral is that he did not have the "knowledge" required, but
did
have a
very deep understanding of mathematics. To compensate for this
lack
of
"knowledge", his own and other's, he used his understanding to
create new
"knowledge".
Another illustration... In the beginning, there is
trigonometry.
One has
to memorize lots of half-angle formulae, double-angle formulae,
ad
nausem.
Pure knowledge - just plug in values and crank out answers.
Further
down
the line, one learns Euler's equation and how to effectively use it.
Usually, that static data - all those formulae - get purged from primary
memory. If one needs them, they can be easily derived in a few minutes - a
much more powerful technique. There is little sense cluttering
up
valuable
primary memory with such trivia.
In the field of Oracle database administration, some knowledge
is
essential.
However, understanding is the seminal distinction between the
lower
and
higher levels of expertise. After all, how many of the most challenging
situations you have been in, or toughest projects you have done, could have
been well handled on the basis of knowledge alone? Knowledge
will
only get
you so far. Serious critical reasoning skills are required to transcend the
existing knowledge barrier. Consider also in this context the
large
and
firmly entrenched knowledge base about ratio-based tuning versus more
reasoned wait-based tuning.
(setq minor-rant-mode ON)
This is my main complaint about the OCP program. The tests are
almost
exclusively "knowledge based". The old Chauncey exams had a
much
"understanding" requirement.
(setq minor-rant-mode OFF)
-Don Granaman
[certifiable Orasaurus]
("Real life" doesn't have the correct answers in the back.)
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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:39 PM
> IQ from what I understand is COMPLETELY related to how fast
you
>
> IQ is your ability to learn, nothing to do with how "Smart"
you
>
> Smart is how much you know, nothing to do with how you learn.
>
> "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their
shoes,
> when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."
>
> Christopher R. Spence OCP MCSE MCP A+ RAPTOR CNA
> Oracle DBA
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> Fax: (707) 885-2275
>
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