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a5seo · 2012-06-19 · Original thread
http://www.amazon.com/Models-Behaving-Badly-Confusing-Illusi...

"A model...[is] really much more of a metaphor, an attempt to find an analogy between something you want to understand and something to really do understand, either heuristically or by a theory."

from http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/03/derman_on_theor.htm... - very good interview.

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