Subject: Loop of the Week

Posted by Richard Turnock on 11/7/2003
In Reply To:Loop of the Week Posted by Peter Welles on 11/6/2003

Message:

Peter Welles comments appropriately move our dialogue from "How?" to "Why?"
Each of the descriptions of the water cycle went into more and more detail about how to model it. Folks were skipping over stating the objective, hypothesis and expected behavior then getting a simple model running and following a continuous improvement process. Dynamic modeling is a learning process not a destination, right?

Remind me, who get's credit for the quote:
"all models are wrong some models are useful"

Why not develop a series of models showing different levels of complexity for the water cycle, with a report for each one stating the objective, hypothesis and other parts of a complete dynamic modeling PROCESS?

Other questions are:
What is the overall goal of developing a series of models about the water cycle?
What is the mission for a project to develop them?
What strategy does this support? (Why are we doing this?)

Great topic.
Thank you Lees for providing the catalyst.
Richard