[meheleventyone]

Those were rhetorical questions I fully understand what the point of the example was.

[Chris2048]

but then it doesn't encode assumptions. Metaphors are supposed to be imperfect.

"bias" and "reality" can equally cover for model simplicity.

[meheleventyone]

Of course it encodes assumptions whether imperfect or not.

[Chris2048]

Does a water-pipe analogy for electrical current encode the assumption that electricity is made of water?