REPLY Please Capitalize System Dynamics (SD6345)

[SDMAIL Jean-Jacques Laublé]

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

Hi everybody.

I think that capitalizing or not should normally have no importance.
But capitalizing may reinforce the point of view that the
world is separated in static and dynamic, with a weak and
not quantitative dynamic called system thinking or by some SD lite.
That point of view has caused a lot of damage to the field, and
especially to new comers who would better first learn to make static
models which is already difficult and learn to use all the fundamentals of
SD (dimension coherence, causality, calibration, reality checks etc. )
in a static environment before wanting to make dynamic models
that are much more difficult to build.

I personally do not see a real difference between these worlds, because
I am interested into understanding reality and can choose to wear
static or dynamic spectacles or both depending on the subject.

But changing the type of spectacles will not change the reality, it will
only change the perception of it.
So I vote for system dynamics.
Regards.
Jean-Jacques Laublé
Strasbourg France
Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>
posting date  Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:59:20 +0100