Others counter that as computing goes mobile, it favours information-technology firms that have invested in research for years and that Google was naive or idealistic to broaden its IT business without having a stack of patents.
Chris Thorpe's new show at Northern Stage, Confirmation, explores confirmation bias: "The tendency to favour information that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses".
Nassim Taleb, the intellectual and author of Black Swan, says in his earlier book Fooled by Randomness that we should favour information "that is stripped of meaningless but diverting clutter".
Therefore there is a bias resulting from the uneven availability of information, favouring information that is readily available over perhaps more relevant but not so easily available information.
The finding in the Moroccan sample may also be related to sociological issues like social networking, favouring information exchange between traditional women.
A small proportion favoured information from a website (n = 126, 13%) or handwritten medicine information from their doctor or pharmacist (n = 98, 10%) and almost half (n = 435, 44%) only wanted spoken information from their doctor or pharmacist.
The chaos remains, but coping with it gets easier.Better communications also favour information-sharing and co-ordination between agencies.
The point of overestimated effect sizes among 'significant' parameter estimates has been made by Burnham and Anderson (2002) as an argument to favour information-theoretic (IT) approaches over null-hypothesis testing.
He denied any attempt to exchange favours for information, and called the allegations "absurd".
Women's under-representation in high-paying jobs in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) mirrors their earlier choices of matriculation electives: male students favour physics, information technology and advanced mathematics; female students favour life sciences.
Other sites were less charitable about Cannarella and Spechler's claims, pointing out that the authors ignored Facebook's own user data, which shows steady global growth, in favour of information from Google Trends, which appears to show declining interest.
