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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1981
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 4a97153f59047c298f3bcd6b15c284f5, and e8eac154b3129692f26c222dbc2c9466
- Description:
- Although the system dynamics literature covers issues of how to construct, analyze, test, validate, and implement dynamic models, surprisingly little attention has been paid to how managers react to and interpret the output from system dynamics models (see Gardiner and Ford, 1980; Rohrbaugh and Anderson, 1979). That is, system dynamicists construct feedback models that are simplifications of a complex reality and then conduct policy tests on these abridged representations. However, decision makers not trained in system dynamics may find that even these allegedly simplified models may be quite complex and difficult to evaluate, since model output typically consists of scores of variables interwoven over time.