Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom

Data represent certain aspects of entities, logical and physical. Information adds relationship into the description. Knowledge links information and data to problems-solving, decision-making, and/or actions. Data is objective. Information is objective and subjective. Knowledge can be even more subjective in addition to being objective. Wisdom guides thinking and action toward problem-solving by adding perspective to the scenario. From data to information to knowledge and then to wisdom, the distinction can be depicted as one circle enclosed by another with feebback arrows pointing from any outside circle back to inner ones. The point is they are all related to each other, mutually reinforcing and mutually regulating. It's a double arrow-headed link bewteen cause and effect. This shouldn't be surprising because the main actors are human beings. Human beings can be extremely non-linear in their thinking and actions,