What do people know about stocks, flows, and other important systems thinking concepts?
– John D. Sterman (with Linda Booth Sweeney and Ron Zaraza) In a world of accelerating change, educators, business leaders, environmentalists and scholars are calling for the development of systems thinking. Courses in the K-12 grades, universities, business schools, and corporations seek to teach people to think systemically. But how do people learn to think systemically? What systems concepts are most readily understood? Which tend to be most difficult to grasp? We will present results experiments designed to assess important systems thinking concepts such as feedback, delays, and stocks and flows. For example, people are shown a picture of a bathtub and a graph showing the rate at which water flows into and drains out of the tub. They are then asked to sketch a graph showing the amount of water in the tub over time. We found that students from elite business schools with essentially no prior exposure to system dynamics concepts did extremely poorly, showing weak understanding of sto
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