Posted by
glen e. p. ropella-2 on
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Quoting Nicholas Thompson circa 09-12-02 09:48 AM:
> All models are wrong; models are designed to be wrong. They couldnt possibly do any good if they weren;t wrong.
>
> It's just that some models are wronger than others.
Oh, the situation is a lot worse than that. It's not that some models
are more wrong than others. It's that models are rhetorical devices.
When you meet a person who really _believes_ her own rhetoric to the
extent that they are convicted, committed, and unwaveringly confident in
their own rhetoric ... well, then you KNOW you've got a certifiable
WACKO on your hands. Following their consulting would be like following
Jim Jones to Guyana ... like following Marshall Applewhite to Rancho
Santa Fe.
At least with your run-of-the-mill televangelist, you get the sense that
they're just hucksters trying to get others to believe rhetoric they,
themselves, don't believe. I'll take a snake-oil salesman over a True
Believer any day!
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