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- Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:05 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Mental models, cognitive maps and causal diagrams
- Replies: 9
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Mental models, cognitive maps and causal diagrams
Dear John, that was a very interesting message, thank you. I just read a paper by Mingers (multi-metyhodology) who makes a very similar distinction between ""cognitive mapping"" and ""system dynamics"". (I'll have to inquire more about the nature of the demarc...
- Fri Dec 03, 2004 3:05 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Mental models, cognitive maps and causal diagrams
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14389
Mental models, cognitive maps and causal diagrams
Hello, I'm ""academically"" trying to understand the relationship between ""system dynamics"" -modeling and models- and learning. I believe that different versions of a SD model can be used to infer past learning steps, since there is some connection between t...
- Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:47 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Successive versions of a model
- Replies: 4
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Successive versions of a model
Dear Members, if SD modeling can be understood as part of inquiry cycles (for instance the figure in the introductory part of Sterman 2000, p.34), then it might well be that a model ""M"" that has been developed and used (as ""valid"") at a point in time "...