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vertently), deliberately falsified, or evil, and can have negativeeffects. The fourth quadrant indicates that such information exists,whilst the third quadrant depicts information that is not yet availableor accessible (e. g. trash literature which is unpublished).According to certain statistics an American youth at the end of hisschool career attended 11,000 school periods, watched TV for22,000 hours, during which he heard 350,000 promotional slogans,and saw 20,000 murders. That has to have injurious effects. It is inhuman terms necessary to avoid the fourth quadrant, and in technicalterms security measures must be taken to prevent damage (e. g.error detecting codes in data processing systems, and control proceduresfor preventing instability in manufacturing processes).118