> Less information is better? This really depends. Information that does not help make a good decision is just noise. It might seem like diagnostic information

> Less information is better? This really depends. Information that does not help make a good decision is just noise. It might seem like diagnostic information should always help make a good decision, but that isn’t always the case. If the false positive rate is higher than the base rate, a positive test would be more likely to be wrong than right, even with a very high accuracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy