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The Paul Valéry statement’s translation is fairly poor. It sounds more like: “What is simple is always wrong. What is not is unusable”
by d--b 7y ago
The Paul Valéry statement’s translation is fairly poor. It sounds more like:
“What is simple is always wrong. What is not is unusable”
- AstralStorm 7y agoAnd the most important bit is left out - you have to know when and how the model is inaccurate or even the simple one is useless. Explanatory power is limited by explanation of errors.
- falcor84 7y agoExactly - this seems to be the issue with many models in the social sciences, they often seem to do equally well at explaining opposite outcomes