My work heavily involves creating simulated results.
The lower the level of detail, the faster I can obtain a result.
However, lower levels of detail can hide critical flaws.
Lets look at different levels of detail as pictures.
Here is what it is like to compare two different countries at a country level.
The first seems to be grey while the second seems to be brown.
Country 1
Country 2
This is what it is like to break down those countries into six regions each.
Suddenly the second country seems to have some very dark grey that we didn't know was there.
Country 1
Country 2
This is what it would look like with each country divided into 54 segments.
This would be comparable to looking at the United States on a state by state level.
Country 1
Country 2
A this level:
Country 1 has some greenery, and perhaps some lakelands.
Country 2 Looks like it is mostly desert wasteland.
At this level, there are still critical observations being missed.
Within each of these divides exist yet more divides.
Very few people have a world view that exceeds this level.
What is critical can be missed entirely.