all models are wrong

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George Box's statistics proverb: every model simplifies falsely - the question is whether it is useful anyway.

Monitoring dashboards, capacity forecasts, risk matrices, network diagrams: all wrong, some useful. The operational discipline is remembering which simplifications each model made, because that is exactly where it will mislead you.

Also known as: all models are wrong, but some are useful

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