INFORMATION COGNITION AND STATISTICS

This article focuses on systemic research of fundamental issues associated with the cognition of information as a global phenomenon, which predetermines, in particular, the trends of statistics development. The author closely considers basic technologies of information cognition; generalizes philosophical practices aimed at comprehension of the essence of information in case studies and corresponding developments of psychophysiologists and cognitologists. The definition of information, as it was formulated by the founders of cybernetics and the general theory of information, is characterized. Analytical generalization serves as a basis for tracking the evolution of the information concept, changes in understanding of its contents, role and the place of information in the cognition of processes in nature and society.

It is emphasized that the concept of information itself (as an attributed quality) should be separated from the concept of data («read» or consumed information). This cognitive platform shows the features of the organization of global information processes, as well as socio-economic information and principles of its reflection in statistics. Considering statistics as a cognitive system, the author cites the results of analogous studies of information movement in a person in the process of his cognitive and brain activity with the system of organizing information flows during statistical observation.

The author explores general organizing principles of information flows in the process of cognition, as well as the contradictions to the cognitive ability of statistics as a science. Particular attention is paid to aspects of boosting the efficiency of statistics as a practical activity at the data presentation phase by including cognitive properties of the human brain in the process of consuming the information. Proposals for developing perspective formats to present statistical information are formulated. The paper reveals development directions for cognitive technology-based statistical information and for compiling cognitive statistics on this basis. The convergence of cognitive technologies with information and communication technologies, according to the author, is a strategic tool for creating a new architecture of statistics. 

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