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Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties
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Sven N. Thommesen |
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Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties |
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Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:12:57 -0500 |
At 06:56 AM 10/21/99 -0700, Glen Ropella wrote:
Cool model, Darren!
<snip>
Any chance you'll publish the source?
glen
Second the motion! I'd definitely like a look at how you coded the network
aspect of this.
And I'll chime in with a nasty little question for you (and for the rest of
the list, for that matter): I notice you start out saying that your model
'demonstrates' some classic results. This is an excellent beginning, but
(most likely) not enough to get a Ph.D.
Let me play devil's advocate here: Let's assume your model next is used to
ask a novel question, and you get an interesting result. Now, what were you
planning to say by way of justifying why the world should take your result
seriously? 'The world' so far has become used to accepting only
mathematical results that can be proven (while much of the justification
for using agent based models is precisely that we can relax assumptions
until the model is too complicated to ever prove results mathematically!)
[I could take a somewhat cynical stance here and say that proper
justifications don't matter, that what matters is whatever the current high
mucky-mucks in the respective disciplines accept, so that all we Swarmers
have to do is to keep churning out models that are interesting to *us*
while we wait for the Old Guard to die off so *we* can become the high
mucky-mucks. But, let's not be quite that cynical ...]
Sven
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- Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties, Darren Schreiber, 1999/10/20
- Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties, glen e. p. ropella, 1999/10/21
- Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties,
Sven N. Thommesen <=
- Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties, Darren Schreiber, 1999/10/21
- Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties, Paul Johnson, 1999/10/21
- Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties, glen e. p. ropella, 1999/10/21
- Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties, Paul Johnson, 1999/10/22
- Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties, M. Lang / S. Railsback, 1999/10/22
- Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties, glen e. p. ropella, 1999/10/22
- Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties, glen e. p. ropella, 1999/10/22
Re: Modeling the Emergence of Political Parties, Darren Schreiber, 1999/10/21