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A common objection, and for good reason: just because you do not know the right model does not make your bad model somehow true I mean, when you miss 85% of th
by JackSlateur 2y ago
A common objection, and for good reason: just because you do not know the right model does not make your bad model somehow true
I mean, when you miss 85% of the stuff, you gotta admit that, perhaps, your stuff is wrong
And yes, it can work even if it is wrong
- mr_mitm 2y agoNobody said it's "true", whatever that even means for a model. The claim is that it's the best anyone has been able to come up with. And not for a lack of trying. Everybody also acknowledges that there are issue with DM, it's just that every other known model has bigger issues.
- JackSlateur 2y agoHa, my bad When you write "this is the [..] most common objection laypeople have", I understood "In contrast with the experts who know better" Of course, if as you say, everybody knows that this is a wrong, specifying "laypeople" seems unnecessary
- mr_mitm 2y agoYou seem to have a concept that a scientific model is either "true" or "wrong", but that's not case. All models are wrong, but some are more useful than others. It's better to judge models by their ability to describe reality, and that is not a binary property, but a continuous one.
- FredPret 2y agoWhat if we one day come up with a Theory of Everything that mathematically explains it all? That model would be “true” no? Assuming of course that it’s possible to come up with a list of observations that covers “it all” and we won’t one day see something weird and new that contradicts our theory.
- king_magic 2y agoIt’s not a good objection. It conveniently ignores the actual data.