Are the roads red? Comments on “Size Matters”

2004; Elsevier BV; Volume: 33; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.socec.2004.09.027

ISSN

1879-1239

Autores

Edward E. Leamer,

Resumo

Models are neither true nor false. Models are sometimes useful and sometimes misleading. The suggestion that "Size Matters" implicitly accepts the truthfulness goal and deploys a truthfulness metric for measuring the distance between the data and the model. With this way of thinking, we would be led decisively to "reject" a road map that has freeways colored red.

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