“Bucket Errors” seem to me to be pretty much the same idea as explained in the less reference post Fallacies of Compression (except the post introducing the former uses “compression”/conflation of different variables to explain psychological resistance to changing one’s mind).
In other words, the concept at hand here is compression of the map. On my reading, your post is making the point that compression of your map is sometimes a feature, not a bug—and not just for space reasons.
This is evoking thoughts about compression of data for me, and how often PCA and related “compression” techniques often make it easier to see relationships and understand things.
“Bucket Errors” seem to me to be pretty much the same idea as explained in the less reference post Fallacies of Compression (except the post introducing the former uses “compression”/conflation of different variables to explain psychological resistance to changing one’s mind).
In other words, the concept at hand here is compression of the map. On my reading, your post is making the point that compression of your map is sometimes a feature, not a bug—and not just for space reasons.
This is evoking thoughts about compression of data for me, and how often PCA and related “compression” techniques often make it easier to see relationships and understand things.