Ventana software support forum

Posted by George Richardson <gpr@albany.edu> I'm a little late seeing these posts, but if it helps anyone, there's a PowerPoint presentation among my papers on line http:// www.albany.edu/~gpr/Papers.html containing the slides from a talk on Validation as an Integrated Social Process. The slides are...

Posted by George Richardson <gpr@albany.edu> On Oct 22, 2005, at 7:09 AM, Louis Macovsky dynbiosys verizon.net wrote: >> 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 ...

Posted by George Richardson <gpr@albany.edu> On Oct 19, 2005, at 6:18 AM, geoff coyle geoff.coyle btinternet.com wrote: >> It should be (using my variable names) >> >> rate_of_winning_customers=MIN >> (normal_rate_of_winning_customers,potential_customers/dt) >> normal_rate_of_winning_customers=5 >> ...

Posted by George Richardson <gpr@albany.edu> On Sep 19, 2005, at 6:14 AM, geoff coyle geoff.coyle btinternet.com wrote: >> Bill's first paragraph is correct. The order of a model is the number >> of stocks it contains. Not quite. Should be ""...the number of *independent* stocks it contain...

Posted by George Richardson <gpr@albany.edu> I tend never to say ""all models are wrong."" My problems with the statement are that the people I'm speaking with don't usually have the same meanings and attributions to the word ""model"" that I have, or that Joh...

Posted by George Richardson <gpr@albany.edu> >> Posted by <heffron@hialoha.net> >> First of all, labeling people ""environmentalists"" or ""non-environmentalists"" >> (i.e., implied: ""realists"") is -if not unnecessary- just plain dumb. Re...