@hyoomin @MandyJane @Cousin_Isobel @AnungIkwe The better methodology is no one understands system, by design. A system has its own internal model of itself and reality. This makes truly modelling a system impossible, you can hope to bound it, and contain it, but something can always, always go wrong. Scientists are too fucking stupid to understand systems, as they are trapped in their own system. You can probe systems, perturb system, take them apart -- and it can be meaningless -- it can change its metastable state. I've done industrial accident studies, under strictly controlled situations, things still go sideways, because systems are nothing like what our stupid-ass platonic universities think.