Wrong but not useless?

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right and not useless
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wrong but not useless
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right and useless
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wroing and useless
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not even wrong
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Wrong but not useless?

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A review of the book How I Became a Quant (R.R. Lindsey and B. Schachter, Wiley)
that just appeared in the Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118774956064304935.html
quotes Thomas Wilson (Chief Insurance Risk Officer, ING Group) as saying
"A model is always wrong, but not useless."
Clearly he knows nothing about biology.
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