He set out with an apparently simple aim: to pin down the precise meaning of the concept of "information".

他的出发点显然很简单：确定“信息”这个概念的确切含义。

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The reply feature allowed us to get more precise information.

回复功能使我们能得到更多确切的信息。

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Thus, search engines become more effective than they are now, and users can find the precise information they are hunting.

这样，搜索引擎会变得比现在更有效率，用户也会精确地找到所要寻找的信息。

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In this way, vague information, compared with precise information, yields better performance and thus results in outcomes that confirm positive expectancies.

FORBES: The Virtues of the Imprecisely Measured Self

When it comes to the hedge fund industry, where billions of dollars are made and lost each year due in part to the accuracy of information, precise measurement and reporting on the scale of the industry itself appears frustratingly imprecise and hence unimportant.

FORBES: Hedge Funds: A $2 Trillion Industry?

The group with the more imprecise information lost more weight than the group with more precise information.

FORBES: The Virtues of the Imprecisely Measured Self