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I think it is a commentary on the state of our profession that this subject has generated so much discussion and heat, almost to the exclusion of any other topics on the over the past week or so. Jay asked "does it matter"? Id go further and say "who cares"? You may formulate var...

[ Edited ] The plain fact is that SD has progressed light years since Barry Richmond first came up with STELLA. If all we still had was DYNAMO and DYSMAP, there would be not be a single business manager prepared to countenance "getting engaged" with a modelling project. Reality is, that gr...

At last some sense from Jay on soft variables. Much of the significant SD work my company (Cognitus) does for clients is focussed on the identification and significance testing of strategic variables for which little hard data exists, or where the impact of such variables is imperfectly understood. ...