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Posted by ""Louis Macovsky"" <dynbiosys@verizon.net> Greetings, How do you in your practice of causal loop diagramming with clients convey the concept that i.e. Loop Y is not activated until some threshhold is reached in Loop X? Without some accompanying narrative, the client may...

Posted by ""Louis Macovsky"" <dynbiosys@verizon.net> Mental model creation: I would suggest going back in time and reading David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature which was published anonymously in two installments before he was thirty (1739, 1740). From a review by James Fieser, U...

Posted by ""Louis Macovsky"" <dynbiosys@verizon.net> Rather than a letter to the editor, wouldn't more be accomlished in the debate of ideas by convincing Sci. Am. to publish an indepth article dedicated to system dynamics... its underlying theories of system thinking, its potent...

Posted by ""Louis Macovsky"" <dynbiosys@verizon.net> Greetings, 1. It seems to me that the role of ratios in the structure of a model is one of ""normalization"" of one or two variables. And THEN is used for decision making based on the result. Am I correct? 2...