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All maps are created with selective purpose. The only thing that can possibly represent all purposes simultaneously is the world itself. Accordingly, every ma
by crtified 3y ago
All maps are created with selective purpose.
The only thing that can possibly represent all purposes simultaneously is the world itself.
Accordingly, every map is also a compromise.
- dredmorbius 3y agoMore generally: All models are wrong, but some are useful. -- George E. P. Box, in "Science and Statistics" (1976) <https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Ian.Jermyn/philosophy/writings/Boxonmaths.pdf https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Ian.Jermyn/philosophy/writi...> (PDF) See: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong> Box apparently expanded on the notion in Box, G. E. P. (1979), "Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building", in Launer, R. L.; Wilkinson, G. N. (eds.), Robustness in Statistics, Academic Press, pp. 201–236, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-438150-6.50018-2, ISBN 9781483263366. Full text online at <https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/224156357/skogen_etal_2021_meps.pdf https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/224156357/skogen_etal_2021_meps....> (PDF)