Their media mode, language preferences, information importance, and information-gathering difficulties also were examined.
It may be expected that increasing information resources would increase the chances of encountering, and thus being confused by, conflicting or differing information, but the results found here showed little difference in the ratio of respondents who cited this information-gathering difficulty, regardless of nationality or language proficiency.
Open image in new window Fig. 5 Sources of information gathering-related difficulties encountered by survey respondents.
H13: Difficulties of information gathering will negatively influence the decision for migration.
However, because of limited human information processing capacities, too many choices and too much browsing freedom tend to disorient users and increase the difficulty of information gathering.
The sources of difficulties related to information gathering are shown in Fig. 5.
The sources of information-gathering-related difficulties were selected based on a review of experiences shared in person, among online communities, and through news reports in the aftermath of the disaster.
Rotating blackouts, implemented in response to the energy supply shortage caused by suspension of nuclear energy generation, may have had some impact on information gathering behavior, as indicated by the common difficulty experienced by survey respondents, who were unable to access information (for example, due to mobile congestion and power outage).
The use of And to preface questions, use of multiple declaratives, optimised for confirmation, and a process of ellipsis whereby questions were shortened made this information gathering activity appear more as a checklist designed to rule out serious difficulties rather than orienting to the patient's specific presenting problem.
But information gathering needs to be bolstered.
