Robert is a strategic planner for a consulting firm. He receives countless reports for daily analysis, but he avoids being inundated with information by selecting only the few reports that actually serve his purpose. Which principle of data characterization is Robert following?
A)Information should be just barely sufficient for its purpose.
B)Data that arrives after a prolonged period of time is of the highest quality.
C)Information needs to be relevant to the subject, not necessarily to the context.
D)Freely available data is always accurate and timely.

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Robert is following the principle that information should be just barely sufficient for its purpose, meaning he only selects the reports that he needs and not all of them to avoid being inundated with information.

Robert Is a Strategic Planner for a Consulting Firm