O/T A Communications Primer (Michigan-Matt et al)

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Relevant!

One thing I find relevant about this to the communications here in the Next Right land, is that very often there actually is a bunch of extra 'noise' subsequently acting on the transmitter signal(a message) to vary it from the 'original', in the form of opinions, and statements, and digressions, spin-offs, etc, which interferes with the message, and the original point/challenge gets buried.

Michigan Matt's S/N ratio is pretty low

Submitted by NoMoreBlatherDotCom on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 22:38.

There's only one sentence in his space-filling comment that wasn't simply an ad hom.[...]

Just as true...maybe some, if not many of the messages here start out with noise before they even get out the starting gate. "When anything acts on the signal so as to bury it in an unpredictable and undesirable way in a communication system, it is noise." Interesting, yes.