REPLY SD Impact on National Government Policies (SD6187)

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Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>

Hi everybody.

In the last thread, the word growth has been often used.

But what kind of growth must we consider?

Obviously the growth considered is a simple growth.

But in the period considered about 50 years, the world population has
been expending and the percentage of learned people has been growing too due
to the improvement of the education system in all the countries in the world.
The number of problems has been probably growing with the population, but the
capacity to solve them should have increased with the improvement of education.

So one could consider studying the ratio number of SD practitioner / number of 
educated people and see if it is growing too.(not sure)

Logically if the number of learned people is increasing so should be the number 
of SDers with a delay because learned people won't rush to study SD and will 
first study simpler technique.

Supposing that this delay is 10 years (probably more) , one should at least 
observe with a delay the same growth of SD than the general growth of learned 
people?

One can too choose another denominator for the ratio: for example the number of 
people dealing with problems having ingrained a sufficient complex dynamic.

By the way what is a complex dynamic explained in current language
and how complex must it be?

Are the people dealing with these problems conscious of the dynamic, how do 
they solve the problems, does it work etc.?

The utility of being more precise about the kind of growth may give some insights 
about the causes of the growth itself.

I agree too to the point of view of Richard Stenvenson.

Regards.
Jean-Jacques Laublé Allocar.
Strasbourg France.
Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>
posting date  Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:27:47 +0100