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In his Apr. 23, 2010, op-ed “Volcanic Ash Allowing,” I’m not sure what Pierpaolo Barbieri has in mind when he calls for “fully determined models delivering certainty.” Perhaps he is referring to the models...
The author wants to draw the wrong conclusion from the fact that simplified models get things wrong (even dramatically wrong). No one denies that we need to better understand and communicate the limitations of data, that it is crucial to guard against unjustified trust in our preferred models (perhaps the...
Models, by design, are simplifications with clearly false assumptions. But the success of models lies in their ability to rationalize and often rightly predict the behavior of more complex real systems. Confused applications of the uncertainty principle notwithstanding, the author’s disdain for the “data...
As imperfectly informed as the experts at the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center might be, their judgments on the basis of data and computer simulation are presumably more useful than the alternative: the intuitions of the CEO of Air-or-Bust, or perhaps, Mr. Barbieri, on when it’s...
I object to your use of the phrase "the Church's penance still lies ahead” in the Crimson Staff editorial “Papal Penance” that was published on Apr. 8, 2010. Although doubtless you intended it to refer to the small proportion of clergy and...