Comments on: George Box http://bluepuzzle.org/comments/george-box Feedback is a gift. But some gifts are more fun to receive than others. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:47:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ted http://bluepuzzle.org/comments/george-box#comment-144 Ted Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:15:08 +0000 http://bluepuzzle.org/comments/george-box/#comment-144 Hi. I'll have to agree with Jay ... all models *are* wrong. The point of a model is to simplify something, so that the salient characteristics become more clear, and patterns emerge from the noise. Maybe your model is different. Maybe it takes into account the noise - randomness as part of the model. But note that, even in that case, the noise is wrong. I'm just sayin'. Hi. I’ll have to agree with Jay … all models *are* wrong. The point of a model is to simplify something, so that the salient characteristics become more clear, and patterns emerge from the noise.

Maybe your model is different. Maybe it takes into account the noise - randomness as part of the model. But note that, even in that case, the noise is wrong.

I’m just sayin’.

]]> By: Jay Conner http://bluepuzzle.org/comments/george-box#comment-140 Jay Conner Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:46:36 +0000 http://bluepuzzle.org/comments/george-box/#comment-140 Without going into any real research about what Box meant, I took the comment to be a variation of Korzybsky's "The map is not the territory" No map is ever the territory, all are schematics, most are useful. Language, being essentially a bundle of metaphors, and a game we play together, is too sloppy to be an accurate representation of the world, but it is all we have. Without going into any real research about what Box meant, I took the comment to be a variation of Korzybsky’s “The map is not the territory” No map is ever the territory, all are schematics, most are useful.

Language, being essentially a bundle of metaphors, and a game we play together, is too sloppy to be an accurate representation of the world, but it is all we have.

]]> By: John Hunter http://bluepuzzle.org/comments/george-box#comment-118 John Hunter Sat, 31 May 2008 21:17:06 +0000 http://bluepuzzle.org/comments/george-box/#comment-118 The quote: "<a href="http://www.curiouscat.com/management/box.cfm" rel="nofollow">All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful</a>" The quote: “All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful“

]]> By: greensmile http://bluepuzzle.org/comments/george-box#comment-7 greensmile Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:30:55 +0000 http://bluepuzzle.org/comments/george-box/#comment-7 <p> I was probably thinkg about models in a very different way when <a href="http://pithingcontest.blogspot.com/2005/04/model-railroading.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">i first posted about them</a>...and looking back at that post, I see I have begun to repeat myself only with footnotes this time around.</p> <p> and yes, I have lived to regret "all" or gone back and changed it to "most" many times.</p> I was probably thinkg about models in a very different way when i first posted about them…and looking back at that post, I see I have begun to repeat myself only with footnotes this time around.

and yes, I have lived to regret “all” or gone back and changed it to “most” many times.

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