The Impact of Computer Generated Information on The Choice Activity of Decision-Makers

Abstract

This article presents a study which was designed to test the hypothesis that the computer experienced subjects would be more suspicious or less confident of computer derived information than would the non-experienced. The key finding of the study was that the mimeograph group of computer experienced subjects modified more answers than did the computer experienced print-out group. This implies that computer experienced subjects were less affected by information that was computer generated than they were by information presented in a more traditional format.