That brings out the short-sellers, who need more of the bad information in the public domain.
This looks like one of those decisions based upon very bad information indeed.
The Harvard FracFocus study serves no useful public purpose, unless that purpose is causing confusion and uncertainty based on bad information.
"A creeping buildup of bad information isn't helpful" in getting convictions, said Peter Henning, a white-collar-crime legal scholar at Wayne State University.
The people who work on each site admit they're up against outdated statistics and bad information in various city and county records offices.
Such bad information is worse than none, reckons Ms Hackett.
But they've designed the sites to allow you to sharpen their estimate by changing the set of homes that your house is being compared to and correcting bad information about your house.
Nissen agrees, saying that taking early looks at data can provide bad information and even change the final result by making doctors and patients aware of what a drug may or may not be doing.
Each of these three examples represents a variation of a more general theme: the ability of digital technologies to afford ready access to large amounts of information can be tremendously dangerous, due to the ease with which bad information can be pushed out and widely disseminated.
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Conversely, to the extent that investors do not presently own shares whose price might be altered by good or bad information, the proper pricing of those shares thanks to the inside investor acting on quality information enables buyers to make better informed decisions about whether or not to buy.
Nothing is almost as bad as negative information.
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The financial crisis was exacerbated by inadequate information and bad assumptions.
Not because the information is bad, although it might very well be skewed, but once it is released for our consumption-what do we do with it?
Hacking, sabotage, espionage and other forms of cyber-warfare are genuine dangers, and billions of dollars have been spent over the last few decades to secure government and corporate information against bad guys usurping or corrupting it.
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"The disclosure of this information means that bad guys are not going to be kept on their toes anymore, " he said.
Acting impulsively on too little information leads to bad decisions, and taking too much time as we gather ever more data means missed opportunities.
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This in itself bad enough - our most personal information stored in labs and state data vaults.
The net effect is that the market for information is generating more bad news, both absolutely and as a proportion of all news.
For one, what right-thinking investor would want to own a stock the price of which does not include all information, good or bad?
In politics, there are constant conflicts of interest, and many of those involved have a vested interest in getting information, good and bad, out in public.
Moreover, MIL should be strengthened in order to enable us to be a better judge of both the good and the bad of all the terabytes of information that overload the daily lives of many people.
Therefore, the best advice for people with bad credit is to dilute the negative information by maximizing the amount of positive information coming into their credit report on a consistent basis.
This is probably a bad investment as Amazon will provide all this information for free through its AuthorCentral website.
The Pan European Game Information system (Pegi) gives games an age rating as well as additional information such as violent content and bad language.
One of the aspects of it is actually proving that information has not been changed by a bad actor.
But without salary information, many more students will make bad choices.
Be that as it may the enthusiasts for nudging are almost certainly correct that we believe all sorts of silly things, have all sorts of flawed information, and make all kinds of bad decisions.
Presumably all those are examples of good information (the empowering sort) rather than bad (the distracting or misleading sort).
Update: Megan McArdle has pointed out that the infograph I used to find information on hours-per-week worked has bad data.
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