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Christina_Young@Wa*.Me*.co* sez: > I don't think that any decompression model could ever be "validated". > The best we can hope to do simulate and test the model under as many > conditions as possible - what you get is a mathematical approximation > that has been empirically confirmed for the conditions in which it > was tested. Yes, exactly -- this is what validation means in the context of physiological models (and economic models, too). But some validation (call it confirmation if it makes you happier) is certainly required -- and an important part of the release of the model is to indicate exactly what situations the model was validated in. Without this information, we risk applying a model to situations in which it makes highly precise, though inaccurate, predicitons -- with nasty consequences for the user. I am wondering specifically the Abyss people will do to prevent this. -frank -- fhd@in*.ne* | [M]athematics is not the study of intangible Platonic 1 212 559 5534 | worlds, but of tangible formal systems which have arisen 1 917 992 2248 | from real human activities. 1 718 746 7061 | -- Saunders MacLane
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