ABSTRACT
In recent years a few psychologists, whose business throws them together with communication engineers, have been making considerable fuss over something called “information theory.” They drop words like “noise,” “redundancy,” or “channel capacity” into surprising contexts and act like they had a new slant on some of the oldest problems in experimental psychology. Little wonder that their colleagues are asking, “What is this ‘information’ you talk about measuring?” and “What does all this have to do with the general body of psychological theory?”
