
“As the statistician George E. P. Box wrote, “All models are wrong, but some models are useful.”90 What he meant by that is that all models are simplifications of the universe, as they must necessarily be. As another mathematician said, “The best model of a cat is a cat.”91”
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
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