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I think we need to separate the usefulness of pop-science literature from its accuracy. In the great words of George Box "All models are wrong but some are usef
by twelvechairs 5y ago
I think we need to separate the usefulness of pop-science literature from its accuracy. In the great words of George Box "All models are wrong but some are useful".
The science is still emerging so of course its impossible to write an accurate book of this breadth, but does that make writing a book wrong? I don't think so. As the conclusion says it just needs to be "read as a subjective account".
- Tenoke 5y ago>but does that make writing a book wrong? No, it means you should be more careful what you include in your book. The problem isn't isn't that authors write books on emerging science, the problem here is that they overly trust small studies and present them as stronger evicence than they are. As the author of the article said if Kahneman was writing the book later it wouldn't be nonexistent but different and with some chapters missing.