[Year 12 IT Apps] Validating information?

[Mark Kelly]

Here's an interesting one for those of you who enjoy a good 5 minute 
argument.

ITA U3O1 - last key knowledge dotpoint: techniques for validating data 
and information.

Now, call me an old fuddy duddy, but I believe in our glorious current 
Glossary which says:  "Validate - To check that data input to a computer 
system is of an appropriate type for processing and within acceptable 
boundaries."

Not 'information'.  Data.

To my way of thinking information (output) can be tested, not validated.

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Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
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Why do people mis-spell 'grammar' and mispronounce 'pronuniciation'?