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When students of statistics are introduced to creating and interpreting models, they are introduced to George Box's maxim:
*All models are wrong, some are useful.*
It's a call for humility and perspective, a reminder to superimpose the messy world on your clean lines. 1/
*All models are wrong, some are useful.*
It's a call for humility and perspective, a reminder to superimpose the messy world on your clean lines. 1/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all… 2/
pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all… 2/
Even with this benediction, modeling is forever prone to the cardinal sin of insisting that complex reality can be reduced to "a perfectly spherical cow of uniform density on a frictionless plane." 3/
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 04/02/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/dai…
Linguistic tricks to grab your online audience’s attention
nature.com/articles/d4158…
#linguistics #AudienceAttention #engagement
nature.com/articles/d4158…
#linguistics #AudienceAttention #engagement
Mistrust of the CBO is unfortunately a growing bipartisan avocation
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
#CongressionalBudgetOffice #data #trust #reports #politics
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
#CongressionalBudgetOffice #data #trust #reports #politics
