Can Something Be Accurate And Simple?

Can something be accurate and simple simultaneously? Is there a trade-off? Can one not explain all the details of a concept but have it still be simple? First let’s start off with the definition of a trade-off. A trade-off is a balance achieved between two desirable incompatible features; a compromise. The definition of a trade-off suggests that you cannot have both accuracy and simplicity because they are incompatible. It also suggests that you have to let go of some of the accuracy as well as the simplicity to meet in the middle. From this it seems as, if one wants to be completely accurate they cannot be simple and vice versa if you want to be simple you cannot be entirely accurate.
The definition of accurate is that something is correct in all details or exact. The definition of simple is that something is easily understood or done and that it presents no difficulty. Just from the definitions it seems that a concept can be both accurate and simple because something could be exact and easily understood. So can someone be accurate and simple? In a way yes but generally there is a trade-off between being accurate and being simple.
The connotation of being simple is that, that person knows little. The connotation of being accurate is that there is a lot of information that …show more content…
Our brains generally look for patterns whether they are there or not to try to explain what is occurring around us. Our senses try to fill in the gaps to try to explain everything because there is so much stimulus around us. Our senses are constantly over stimulated and because they can’t handle it, they in a way alter our reality. Our senses filter out the details that may seem irrelevant, so there is all this data that we don’t take in. Our nervous system tries to simplify everything naturally. It seems that our nature is to try to make things simple rather than accurate, so again there is that trade-off between accuracy and simplicity in