The Incredulity of Latent Variables

The incredulity is understandable, but I also believe it is very often misplaced. It feels like the coin getting on an airplane and going out to the best cost. So let me ask you, when you think about latent variables, do you think about them as real things? Oh, that's a great question. Yes. And then my transition into, well, how then do we go about doing this? Because then we bring in not only the numerical statistical mathematical architecture,. Then we make these logical deductions about what we believe to exist and what we observe.