Re: The Importance of Evidence
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:20 pm
While I agree with you on the importance of filters, which is part of my point of the above, I would say time is not on our side.
In regard to filters though, if I have no time to keep up with the info, how am I going to have time to develop (of find) a proper filter? And, if I can't, then how do I pick which filter is correct? How do I learn that skill? And, who sets up these filters? Also, as the information continues to increase exponentially, so will the amount of "experts" and potential filters, again, only make the overall issue and process of sorting it all out (information and filters) more difficult.
Time is limited and finite in response to each of our lives. It is the one factor that from the moment we are born, we will have less of as each day, hour, second and minute pass.
However, at the same time, the flow of information continues to increase and after a decade or two of the "age of information" we are worse off then before.
Everyone I know in my profession agrees. Each year, each week and each day, there is exponentially more information then the year, week and day before and they can't keep up with it no matter what they do.
And, many of these are people who already dedicate time to the flow and have the skills to potentially do it well. Yet, they are overwhelmed by both the rate and the amount of the flow.
It would only be that much more difficult for someone who does not have the time, or the skill.
And, that is exactly what I see. In the past, the majority of my patients came to me and realized they were lacking in information, let alone accurate information, and needed help. Today, the majority of my patients come to me thinking they not only have the information, but they have very accurate information, in spite of the fact that it is not working for them.
You see this phenomenon all over the internet and social media sites. It has even progressed to the point where people who have no qualification or education in an area at all are arguing with highly qualified, highly educated experts that they know the experts topic better than the expert.
In Health
Jeff
In regard to filters though, if I have no time to keep up with the info, how am I going to have time to develop (of find) a proper filter? And, if I can't, then how do I pick which filter is correct? How do I learn that skill? And, who sets up these filters? Also, as the information continues to increase exponentially, so will the amount of "experts" and potential filters, again, only make the overall issue and process of sorting it all out (information and filters) more difficult.
Time is limited and finite in response to each of our lives. It is the one factor that from the moment we are born, we will have less of as each day, hour, second and minute pass.
However, at the same time, the flow of information continues to increase and after a decade or two of the "age of information" we are worse off then before.
Everyone I know in my profession agrees. Each year, each week and each day, there is exponentially more information then the year, week and day before and they can't keep up with it no matter what they do.
And, many of these are people who already dedicate time to the flow and have the skills to potentially do it well. Yet, they are overwhelmed by both the rate and the amount of the flow.
It would only be that much more difficult for someone who does not have the time, or the skill.
And, that is exactly what I see. In the past, the majority of my patients came to me and realized they were lacking in information, let alone accurate information, and needed help. Today, the majority of my patients come to me thinking they not only have the information, but they have very accurate information, in spite of the fact that it is not working for them.
You see this phenomenon all over the internet and social media sites. It has even progressed to the point where people who have no qualification or education in an area at all are arguing with highly qualified, highly educated experts that they know the experts topic better than the expert.
In Health
Jeff