The Useful Wrong Answer
By Sonny Saggar
Planned book · Working title · No publication date announced
When is an imperfect answer useful enough? Models, uncertainty and the art of making decisions without knowing everything.
A place to begin
A map omits most of a landscape. That omission can help you navigate, provided the missing detail does not matter for your journey.
A question worth arguing with
What must a model preserve to be useful for this particular decision?
Try this
Choose a simplified explanation. Name one situation in which its simplification becomes misleading.
This is a new introductory companion to the proposed book’s subject, not an extract from a completed manuscript.