In practice, there’s this common wisdom that you should try to keep things simple. Why?
I would have said the most important reason is that you (and people you talk with) can hold all of the simple model in your head and learn the right lessons from it. Whereas if you add too much complexity, you can’t track what’s going on anymore, so it’s hard to do anything with the model other than just deferring to it, and the model probably isn’t so good that you should just defer to it.
I would have said the most important reason is that you (and people you talk with) can hold all of the simple model in your head and learn the right lessons from it. Whereas if you add too much complexity, you can’t track what’s going on anymore, so it’s hard to do anything with the model other than just deferring to it, and the model probably isn’t so good that you should just defer to it.