what are the characteristics of useful information?

Answer 1

When I was getting my bachelor's degree, useful information used to be defined as:

"The difference that makes a difference"

In other words, I can give you lots of data--numbers, words, dates etc, but unless that data will provide some sort of ***difference*** to you, it is not useful.

Example: Jane is 12, and John is 15. This is just data.

However, what if I told you "go buy a birthday gift."

After hearing the ages of the children, that data would have made a *difference* to you.

Thus, useful information highlights differences in data.

Regards,

Mysstere

Answer 2

You can actually use it.