The standard academic failure mode is to make a number of assumptions for tractability that severely lower the relevance of the results (and the more pernicious failure mode is to hide those assumptions).
Perhaps, but at least these assumptions are stated. Most work leans on similarly strong assumptions (for tractability, brevity, or lack of rigour meaning you don’t even realise you are doing it) but doesn’t state them.
Perhaps, but at least these assumptions are stated. Most work leans on similarly strong assumptions (for tractability, brevity, or lack of rigour meaning you don’t even realise you are doing it) but doesn’t state them.