• @Klear
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    147 months ago

    All models are wrong. Some models are useful.

    • @[email protected]
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      107 months ago

      I prefer mine:

      literally every model is a metaphor and not a true representation of the actual phenomenon it’s modeling.

      • @Malfeasant
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        27 months ago

        Why use many words when few will do?

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          I personally think that “all models are wrong” does nothing to stop people from simply thinking in terms of practical inevitabilities, when it’s actually extremely important to understand that figuring out what’s “actually going on” was never even the concern of science in the first place.