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On 2016-09-07 00:18, William Flynn Wallace wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:19.2px">So I
won't worry - the modelers are on the job. Biggest worry -
economic models based on faulty theories of human behavior.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:19.2px">Now
the question is: are there any other kind?</span></div>
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Remember Box's dictum: "all models are wrong, but some are useful".
If you demand perfect theories of human behavior you cannot get any
information from any social science at all. <br>
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Babies and bathwater. <br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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