To paraphrase statistician David Cox:
All models are wrong; some are more useful than others.
Steve
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From: "Sean" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: st: A vvvvvery naive question about "controll for"
> What's the relationship between statistical model and the real world?
> Aren't social scientists supposed to explain the real world based upon
> their statistical models? I'm still confused.
>
>
> On 10/15/05, Chris Kopp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "Control for" in the social science lingo refers to the statistical
>> model and not to the real world.
>>
>> hth, Chris
>>
>> On Oct 15, 2005, at 19:33, Sean wrote:
>>
>>> absurd conclusion that physicists should learn from social scientists:
>>>
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> Best Regards,
>
> Sean
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