I agree. I’m looking for ways to get this sort of thing into any course I teach, and since there’s a nontrivial chance that I’ll teach game theory at some point in the future, where it fits best is a good thing to know.
In the class I taught previously and the class I’m teaching right now, I make a point to tell my students that whatever we’re doing is a model and is almost certainly wrong in some way, but that’s ok because it’s close enough to be useful often enough. Both are stat classes, well one is econometrics, but that’s a distinction of mere words mostly.
Beware extrapolating from your own experience, or your present simulation of how you were as a child. The vast majority of children are very difficult to teach even simple concepts, most formal education isn’t teaching of the form we apply to adults but brute force exposing them to information until they absorb it.
Doubtless you could eventually get them to say “the map is not the territory” but I think the actual effct it would have on their comprehension or behaviour is minimal.
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I agree. I’m looking for ways to get this sort of thing into any course I teach, and since there’s a nontrivial chance that I’ll teach game theory at some point in the future, where it fits best is a good thing to know.
In the class I taught previously and the class I’m teaching right now, I make a point to tell my students that whatever we’re doing is a model and is almost certainly wrong in some way, but that’s ok because it’s close enough to be useful often enough. Both are stat classes, well one is econometrics, but that’s a distinction of mere words mostly.
This is like Milton Friedman’s billiard player example.
Beware extrapolating from your own experience, or your present simulation of how you were as a child. The vast majority of children are very difficult to teach even simple concepts, most formal education isn’t teaching of the form we apply to adults but brute force exposing them to information until they absorb it.
Doubtless you could eventually get them to say “the map is not the territory” but I think the actual effct it would have on their comprehension or behaviour is minimal.
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