[FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 38, Issue 3

[Phil Henshaw]

Well that curve is the clearest kind of complex systems inforation we
ever get.   This is one beautiful and dramatic bullet of information,
and I think if we ask a hundred systems scientists what it means we'll
get a lot of opinion, much of it not based on systems theory.   

I think what's amazing about the curve is that it shows a remarkably
clear dynamic in the trust of the nation, a long period on the same path
of decay.   What I read it as, and others may differ, is that out trust
in war as a response to terror actually never had a growth, climax or
stability period, only a decay period.  

Growth curves are usually direct evidence of the regular organizational
development processes of complex systems.   I think we should include
using them to locate physical examples of the phenomena we wish to
model, as one means of finding windows into seeing how they actually
work.


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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:37 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 38, Issue 3
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> Phil Henshaw wrote:
> > What do you
> > think the amazing shape of the Bush approval curve means, about the 
> > complex system events of American politics?
> > http://jackman.stanford.edu/blog/?p=74   I rate this as very high
> > quality data on a very real but unnoticed large scale 
> complex system 
> > behavior.  What do you see it as.
> >   
> It might show that people prefer to follow rather than think.
> 
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