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Stuart: it is testing a model against predictions (not retrodictions) that guards against human biases (in the choice of model).

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Another take entirely (just one page):

A Note on Simple Models

What implicitly come out from the example he uses is that models are often simple from the point of view of those making them, but only them (Bayseian analysis, for instance, is only simple once you've properly understood it). Might be another bias; not sure of its implications here.

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