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All models are wrong, some are useful.

I took EE in college. Circuits are laughably more complicated than a linear circuits class might lead you to believe.

Other engineers are taught the drag equation. It technically includes "all the other important factors" but only because they stuff it all into the drag coefficient.

Back to EE. In fields and waves you are shown how light is a wave. They don't take the opportunity to jump into a full unit on QM.

For pedagogical reasons people teach foundational concepts first. In this thread there seem to be many people who are unaware of what actual economists do, what they are capable of, but are quite confident they have it all wrong.



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