Sentences with phrase «model say anything you want»

Talk to someone who rejects the conclusions of climate science and you'll likely hear some variation of the following: «That's all based on models, and you can make a model say anything you want.»

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Earl said that if you wanted to do something — anything — successfully and you had no instructions, no role model, no road map, no mentors, all you needed to do was look around at how the majority was doing that thing, then do the opposite — because the majority is always wrong.

If some economist says there is no link between cigarettes and disease, I really don't want them having anything to do with modeling healthcare policies or tobacco - control laws.

That's the problem with models... you can get them to say anything you want to by adding some unjustified assumptions... things like «disease killed off 80 % of the native population» to account for the dissappearances.

Do you believe in a digital world and models of reality according to academics who have never held real jobs — models that can be constructed to say anything you want them to say?

Let me explain: If I can say anything for sure, it's that I don't want anyone to take a precooked climate projection — whether a single model or a multi-model ensemble, probabilistic or not — and run with it.

Anything I would say would be a repeat so I just wanted to add that Our business model is one that offers a discount and I appreciate Geralds realistic sentiment that different business models should be respected.