{"id":519,"date":"2006-04-04T22:18:19","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T22:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=519"},"modified":"2006-04-04T22:18:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T22:18:19","slug":"quote-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/04\/04\/quote-144\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote #144"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This classic, finally properly sourced, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/George_Box\">Wikiquote<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nAll models are wrong. Some are useful.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes seen as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nAll models are false but some models are useful.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wikiquote continues: &#8216;The remark has two phrasings, both of which appear in George E.P. Box &#038; Norman R. Draper, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (Wiley 1987) pp. 74 and 424: &#8220;Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.&#8221;; &#8220;Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This classic, finally properly sourced, thanks to Wikiquote All models are wrong. Some are useful. Sometimes seen as: All models are false but some models are useful. Wikiquote continues: &#8216;The remark has two phrasings, both of which appear in George E.P. Box &#038; Norman R. Draper, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (Wiley 1987) pp. 74 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-8n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}