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I don't think that's how it works. A model doesn't become a good model simply because it's hard to or nobody has bothered to make a better one.
by b4lancesh33t 9y ago
I don't think that's how it works. A model doesn't become a good model simply because it's hard to or nobody has bothered to make a better one.
- js8 9y ago> A model doesn't become a good model simply because I agree, and > nobody has bothered to make a better one So bother! I have made 4 comments here and all of them ask the same question. What would you improve and how do you think it would affect the outcome? Sometimes the simple model is (almost) as good as any in answering a simple question. For example, some people do not accept climate models (and probably never will), ostensibly for reasons that they are not good. I see the opposite - the models have gotten much better and much more realistic in the past 60 years. Yet, the same basic outcome (Earth will warm roughly 3 degrees by doubling CO2) was foretold by very crude models that even don't have the circulation.
- nahom1 9y agoI find this a really flawed logic, just because someone doesn't have an alternative doesn't mean he just accepts whatever is thrown at it. There are many situations where "I don't know" is acceptable.