Public policies must not be subject to the whim of the poll respondents and related statistical results. Instead, public policies should reflect our understanding for a better overall common good, that is a reflection of a better democracy.

In this regard it is definitely preferable to use the tool of System Dynamics rather than the tool of Statistics. With System Dynamics we are able to simulate dynamically our whole world of study in a consistent and participative fashion.

With Statistics instead, we are able only to statically represent the world of study when we ass-u-me the condition of ‘ceteris paribus’ that is when we change one resource (variable) while all the others remain the same. With System Dynamics we think cyclically, that is we include the understanding of our limitations and we include the understanding that for any action there is a reaction. With Statistics instead we think linearly, that is we ass-u-me that some of our resources can grow infinitely and that there is no reaction to an action.

By the way, I was forgetting to state that our governments, including the Government of Saskatchewan and universities, don’t like the tool of System Dynamics in defining public policies as our own governments have been taken over by the big corporations. And big corporations have the interest of the good of money rather than the interest of the good of people.

References

Pertinent article published in Ensign

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