signalværdi
Signalværdi, or signal value, is a notion used across disciplines to describe how informative or meaningful a signal is as a source of information about the state or quality of a system or actor. It concerns how clearly a signal differentiates among possibilities, how observers interpret it, and how costly or easy it is to produce. The term is context-dependent and can apply to technical, biological, social, and economic settings.
In signaling theory, the value of a signal depends on its credibility and cost. Signals that are
Quantitative assessments of signal value often use information-theoretic measures, such as mutual information, or outcomes-based approaches