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Let's say we do 100 physics experiments, and 99% of the results agree with our model. Do we get to ignore / throw out that one "erroneous" result? No, that result if verified shows a flaw in our model.
If afterwards you regretted a choice and wish you had made a better choice even with the information available to you at the time, then this realization should have bolt upright in your chair. If verified, your decision making process needs updating.
it's still a pretty damn good model. Why can't you get that point? Newtonian mechanics was still a very useful model and would've been ridiculous to replace with intuition just because it gave absurd answers in relativistic situations.
I never contradicted that point. Newtonian physics works quite fine in many situations. It is still wrong.
Edit: to expand on that point when we use physics we know that there a certain circumstances in whichwe use classical physics because it is easier and faster and the results are good enough for the precision we need. Other times we use quantum physics or relativity. the decision of which model to use is itself part of the decision-making frameworks and is what I'm talking about. if you chose to use the wrong framework and get incorrect results then your metamodel of which framework to use use to be updated.