{"id":942,"date":"2009-02-19T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T03:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2009\/02\/19\/models-that-have-predictive-value\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:33:44","slug":"models-that-have-predictive-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"models that have predictive value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that models that have a predictive value appear to me to have more &#8220;validity&#8221;. If a model of airodynamics &#8220;works&#8221; and an airplane flies, it is more difficult to equate this model to some model that does not seem to have a useful application.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that science says if a model is predictive and produces reliable repeatable results it is &#8220;true&#8221;.I recognize this to be the scientific model, a story about how we define &#8220;the real&#8221;.However there does seem to be a difference among models in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>What does TSK say on this matter?<\/p>\n<p>Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that models that have a predictive value appear to me to have more &#8220;validity&#8221;. If a model of airodynamics &#8220;works&#8221; and an airplane flies, it is more difficult to equate this model to some model that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=942\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-tsk-online-fall-2008winter-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}