[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# Systems mapping

## Details

**Reported in** The Pareto Structure of Thought

**Authors** Cabrera D, Cabrera L

**Year** 2025

**Publisher** Journal of Systems Thinking

[Read it at the publisher](https://doi.org/10.54120/jost.v25i1.dc6par6) 
10.54120/jost.v25i1.dc6par6

## In authors' words

### Who or what was studied (sample)

N = 34,398

### How they did it (methods)

Observational analysis of structural operations performed by users of a systems mapping tool.

Badges: shared dataset, observational

### What they found (results)

48% took no action. Of those who acted: 48% broke distinctions into parts (769,120), 46% produced relationships (565,999), 25% named them, 16% took an explicit perspective, 4% distinguished within one, 2% related within one.

## Commentary

### Response

Reported in all four pattern papers, sliced per pattern. Counted once here, on the Pareto card, to avoid presenting one dataset as four findings.

## Questions it bears on

- Q1. [What is thinking (T)?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/what-thinking)
- Q2. [What is organization (O)?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/what-organization)
- Q3. [Does this organization (O) exist in the mind, and in what minds produce?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/completeness-mind)
- Q6. [Does the organization (O) constrain anything, and does it predict anything?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/forbids-anything)
- Q21. [What is bias (B)?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/bias)
- Q1001. [What is "systems mapping"?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/what-systems-mapping)

**How to cite this** Cabrera D, Cabrera L (2025). Systems mapping. Journal of Systems Thinking.