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On duplicity in the modeling of public problems
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In this article, the authors point out that operational modeling has been stunted in its growth so that its practitioners neither take pride in a professional affiliation nor have a body of standards to observe.Abstract:
One of the problems is that operational modeling has been stunted in its growth so that its practitioners neither take pride in a professional affiliation nor have a body of standards to observe. The consequence is clear: the analyst’s wares are widely rejected, and the worth of the entire enterprise is questioned. Ida Hoos sounded the tocsin early,3 and others have provided technical expositions of the situation.4read more
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Building Good Models is Not Enough
TL;DR: The failure of models to live up to the expectations and demands of the user community has led to increasing skepticism about the usefulness of policy modeling as mentioned in this paper, and the authors of this paper examine reasons for this growing dissatisfaction and consider ways to deal with it.
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Assessing Outcomes and Effects
TL;DR: The art of the machines is to serve that they may rule as mentioned in this paper, and this is the art of machines' art of rule-making, not just from a low materialistic point of view.
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Some costs and consequences of large‐scale social systems modeling
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss some of the costs and consequences of large-scale models and recommend their explicit recognition and acknowledgments as the first steps for improvement, and suggest that these costs prevent large scale models from playing a constructive role in policy processes and retard the development of more useful large scale modeling activity.
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The Professional Role of the Physician in Bureaucratized Medicine: A Study in Role Conflict
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“Squishy” problems and quantitative methods
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss potential hazards in the application of quantitative methods to "squishy" problems without well-defined structure, of the type frequently encountered in government policy and decisionmaking.
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Neutrality and advocacy in policy research
TL;DR: The naive scientism which has dominated federal policy research and most policy research institutes has become a self-blinding dogma, an armchair philosophy which fabricates and distorts reality and has failed at its task of understanding our social and economic problems.
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Operational social systems modeling: Pitfalls and prospectives
TL;DR: Social systems modeling appears to have a future of both high potential and growth as discussed by the authors, however, as is the case with many emerging and evolving fields, operational or applied social modeling has had its share of failures and only limited successes, and it will undoubtedly continue to do so.
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The scholar as artisan
Robert T. Holt,John E. Turner +1 more
TL;DR: In an age when there are increasing pressures on social scientists to produce knowledge that is directly relevant for dealing with problems confronting societies, it is useful to look at the scholar as an artisan as discussed by the authors.