Introduction to Mental Modeler

[@nomathamsanqamote9914]

3 months of article reading was summarized in less than an hour. Thank you Steve

[@kyokushinfighter78]

what is the difference of FCM with System Dynamics? Seems very similar.

[@mentalmodeler]

FCM doesn't have a discrete time component and all relationships are linear and the output of FCM is largely qualitative (relative change). SD take longer to build but has more analytical power (nonlinearities, discrete time and other units). We just made another video that talks about this some. Hopefully this is helpful! kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIHFp3qcdpynjtk

[@mentalmodeler]

Similar-- but the short of it is that SD can have much more complex relationships (non-linearity, differential equations) and FCMs are just linear and causal relationships. FCM are much quicker and dirtier than SD and also there are no units in the scenario output-- its just relative change.

[@samueltemitope8147]

@@mentalmodeler but most of the things in life are nonlinear, have time delays, focus on causation not correlation. Does this means system dynamics is more important and relevant to business professionals than FCMs?

[@mshalahuddin1307]

FCM and system dynamics are similar methods because the main basis for modeling is the causal relationship between variables. The main difference between FCM and system dynamics is during simulation. FCM uses the weight value of the relationship between variables as the basis for the simulation process. System dynamics requires loops and values of input variables as the basis of the simulation process.

[@MoKoSoft80]

It war really interesting how to introduce in Mental Modeler World, thanks a lot.

[@guiray2000]

I can't seem to get the graphics working on Windows 10 with Chrome and a brand new Lap top? Must be doing something wrong? Everything works but the graphics part.

[@mentalmodeler]

try getting the latest adobe flash player. We are moving the software to html 5 and out of flash so it shouldn't be an issue in the future.

[@mentalmodeler]

Did you enable the latest version of ADobe Flash? Also firefox works better-- however we are now moving the software to HTML5 so we should not have this problem in the future.

[@aravindanganapathisubraman1173]

one small doubt? how you are choosing the dependency value between two concepts?plzzz answer me fast

[@SmithBoonchutima]

Thank you so much for showing us how to use it. :-)

[@ayanikadutta7518]

How to login if no email is received for the password

[@katyrudolph2350]

this is really cool! You guys crack me up!