{"id":583,"date":"2015-04-11T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/?p=583"},"modified":"2024-02-26T08:49:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:49:44","slug":"the-wisdom-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/the-wisdom-hierarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom Hierarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DATA (know what, where, when)<\/h3>\n

Symbols that represent, characteristics of objects or events (individual facts)<\/p>\n

INFORMATION (know of)<\/h3>\n

Processed data, describes “who?” “what?” “when?” \u201cwhere?” “how many”<\/p>\n

KNOWLEDGE (know how)<\/h3>\n

Instructs “how to?”<\/p>\n

UNDERSTANDING (know why)<\/h3>\n

Explains \u201cwhy?\u201d<\/p>\n

WISDOM (know worth)<\/h3>\n

The ability to see the consequences of our actions by evaluating information, knowledge and understanding<\/p>\n

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See Ben Rockwood’s excellent summary of Russell L. Ackoff’s Wisdom Hierarchy\u00a0 here: http:\/\/cuddletech.com\/?p=520<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  DATA (know what, where, when) Symbols that represent, characteristics of objects or events (individual facts) INFORMATION (know of) Processed data, describes “who?” “what?” “when?” \u201cwhere?” “how many” KNOWLEDGE (know how) Instructs “how to?” UNDERSTANDING (know why) Explains \u201cwhy?\u201d WISDOM (know worth) The ability to see the consequences of our actions by evaluating information, knowledge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}