Relevance and Load Effects on Simple and Complex Decision Making: Additional Evidence.

Abstract

Complexity theory predictions for environmental effects on decision making have been based on the information load concept. Research has shown that earlier studies had confounded load and relevance, and that previously obtained load effects on complex decision making are in fact due to relevance variation. The current paper employs a re-analysis of data measuring the effect of information load and relevant load (rather than load and relevance percentage of load) on simple and complex decision making. Previous results of S. C. Streufert were again supported: it appears that simple decision making is an effect of information load and complex decision making is a result of information relevance in an international conflict simulation.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0761166

Entities

People

  • Siegfried Streufert
  • Susan C. Streufert

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • International Conflicts
  • Simulations

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.