Keith Collyer
May 10, 2022

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There is a big difference between these examples. Whereas there is no reliable evidence for ego depletion, both Bohr and Newton are not so much wrong as incomplete. They are models of the world (as are all scientific hypotheses) and, as the great George Box once said “all models are wrong, some models are useful”. Bohr and Newton are useful, ego depletion is not.

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Keith Collyer
Keith Collyer

Written by Keith Collyer

I’m a husband, father, grandfather, retired Systems Engineer, bassist, cyclist and will write on any and all of those things as the urge takes me.

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