If you ever release a “simplified form” of an idea for ease of illustration, but it gets traction, people will forget all caveats and use it in place of full form, and complain loudly when it fails. The OODA loop is a good example. My double-freytag model is another.
Never ELI5.
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This is what I suspect happened w/ "wash your hands, germs are bad" thing. On margins, washing hands saved children's lives was a good thing, despite the troublesome results of what is described in the hygiene hypothesis. Stuff like this ends up overcorrecting.
Sometimes ELI5?
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so now we have... compromised immune systems and heightened allergen responses? is that a settled thing?
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Ironically, occam’s razor is an example.
People use it to mean “the simplest answer is most likely true”
But it more closely means “the simplest answer is the best one to test first”
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