[avs733]

Just as an observation about this…I’ve increasingly begun to see the term knowledge expand to encompass information as if they are equivalent. That tracks, in my field, with changes in US K-12 education and the problems we now see in college learning behaviors.

I agree with your general ramble, but found this interesting in context.

[dumbfounder]

Yeah, good point, should have said information. Knowledge cannot be transferred directly to people, only information. The person needs to understand the information to convert it into knowledge. An analogy I have heard used before is that data is the primitive, the integral of data is information, and the integral of information is knowledge.