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by "Raymond T. Joseph, PE"
Thu Aug 17, 2000 3:30 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Quantifying soft data
Replies: 16
Views: 21192

Quantifying soft data

One of the base intents of an SD approach is to understand a system. Hard data may make it (seem) easy to do this. Mathematically it is not necessary. Only a relationship needs to be defined: The red button produces a peanut, the blue button produces a walnut. This example produces no scale to quant...
by "Raymond T. Joseph, PE"
Fri Aug 11, 2000 1:38 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Quantifying soft data
Replies: 16
Views: 21192

Quantifying soft data

What fun, thanks for the exercise. The are the same, the are opposites. They are the same it that the teacher required the students to feel the impact of the material. As Richard Hamming pointed out, the value of a model is not in the data it produces but in the experience and understanding one can ...