"information surplus" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to an excess amount of information or data that is not necessary or relevant. Example: With the rise of technology and access to information, people are now faced with an information surplus, making it challenging to distinguish accurate and useful information from irrelevant or false ones.
Its an information surplus, born of changes in technology (the Internet, yes, but also cable TV narrowcasting).
After being fenced in by 140 characters or the often dry annals of Quora or Formspring, it was great to have the information surplus of sights and sounds at my disposal when interacting with a human online.
That's due to the information deficit/misinformation surplus.
Most social scientists believe that both information deficit/misinformation surplus and cultural biases contribute to the problem.
There is the surplus information meant to build a scene (Litvinenko's bus the day of the poisoning passed a Burger King, a McDonald 's a Shannon News store).
Even when sticking to the facts, the information is often surplus to requirement and provides little context for the events that occurred.
Given liberals are predisposed to accept the consensus, this "liberal consensus gap" is a result of a lack of information and/or a surplus of misinformation.
I find it's important to do cursory research but for fiction if I research too much, I get too bogged down by so much surplus information it overwhelms the possibility of writing on it.
When Nichols and May used to do improvised parodies of Pirandello, they were connecting to this subterranean pool of expensively acquired surplus information, in the same way that "Monty Python" has appealed to a randomly overinformed audience with its film about the Holy Grail.
Crick and Mitchinson (1983) famously proposed that REM sleep "erases" or deletes surplus information and unnecessary memories, which, if true, would suggest that enhanced dream recall might actually undermine the effectiveness of the memory-erasing system.
The addition of general information, with limited surplus value, to the standard information provided did not have an influence on HRQoL or anxiety and depression levels.
