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Interesting to see the conversation on exploring strategies with SD games. Experience at London Business School suggests a set of principles that may set such games slightly apart from other kinds. First, we only teach with these (People Express, Beefeater etc.) as team exercises, never as learning ...

Does anyone know of any good, solid SD work on patterns of crime
and violence, especially among the young. References would help.

Kim Warren
kim@farthing.stargate.co.uk

Youre right - Ive noticed the same, but we absolutely have to crack this one. Causal loops are completely inadequate for any serious attempt to model real situations and test policy options. I guess we all know Jay Forresters warning that more than 1-2 loops and the systems behaviour cannot be intui...