Douglas_Knight comments on Reductionist research strategies and their biases - LessWrong
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What does "reductionism" mean here? "using models"?
The title is very strange, because it seems to be suggest that the biases are as compared to some other paradigm, but the criticisms are all internal, that the models are too simple.
A bias is relative to reality. The function f(x)+epsilon is an accurate but biased estimator of f(x).