Critique

Scientific Standards:
Testability & Practical Utility: In everyday communication, is it usually so easy to count the alternatives?
Explanation of data: Does the theory apply only to one-way communication?
Humanistic Standards:
Clarification of Values: Is information (reduction of uncertainty) the most important value of communication? What other values are important?

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