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Posted by  Monte Kietpawpan <kietpawpan at yahoo.com>

I strongly agree with Bob that, fundamentally, good system dynamics 
is simply good science. 
   
Reproducibility is vital to good science. What is the 
scientific method in SD? We know how to predict the implication 
of a given policy, but this is still uncertain whether independent modelers 
will always obtain the same predictions when following the SD modeling 
process. SD can be good science only if we have something to ensure 
that any person who models the same problem will obtain 
the same model boundary and equations.   
   
Monte Kietpawpan
Posted by  Monte Kietpawpan <kietpawpan at yahoo.com>
posting date  Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:29:47 -0800 (PST)