All models are wrong; models are designed to be wrong. They couldnt possibly do any good if they weren;t wrong.
It's just that some models are wronger than others. n Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([email protected]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Holmes To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: 12/2/2009 10:25:02 AM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Game theorists hope to solve world's crises On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM, glen e. p. ropella <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> The extent to which some model authors trust their own models is very frightening. There *has* to be some joke here around auto-rhetoric asphyxiation... -- R
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