>I guess the question I have is when is a less accurate belief more
>useful than a more accurate one?
Great question! One example I use in my book Getting Past OK is the
coach's pep talk to his football team. Telling them they have a good
chance of winning can increase the likelihood of them winning. Studies
have been done showing that such self-fulfilling prophecies do have a
noticeable effect.
Another example is Newtonian physics. It's more useful to compute
results at low speeds using Newton's formulas than Einstein's, even
though the latter are more accurate.
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CEO, Brodie Technology Group, Inc., Bellevue, WA USA
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