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Date: | Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:01:56 -0600 |
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>Hi,
>a friend who is a breastfeeding counsellor, recently typed in the
>nutrients typically found in breastmilk into a well-known CD-ROM
>encyclopaedia (which has a section which checks your nutrition). She
>told the system that the baby was 2wo and asked it to evaluate the
>baby's nutritional status based on a typical amount of breastmilk per
>day.
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>The system's reply: the diet was deficient in protein, fats, vitamins
>and minerals and was too high in sugar! :-(
>Would somebody else like to try it and see if our results are a fluke?
The results are flawed because the beginning premise is flawed--that we can
break down the nuturing properties of breastmilk and process them on a
CD-ROM encyclopaedia, which was "in-formed" by people who don't know all
that there is to know.
Do you remember GI-GO: In computer language it is "garbage in-garbage out."
A system can't "know" more than the people who created it.
Patricia Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee
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