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# Cabrera D, Cabrera L (2025). Systems mapping. Journal of Systems Thinking.

An experiment, N = 34,398, reported in [The Pareto Structure of Thought](https://dsrpevidence.org/paper/500).

## 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.

## Questions it bears on

- [Q1001. What is "systems mapping"?](https://dsrpevidence.org/claims)

[Read the paper it appeared in](https://doi.org/10.54120/jost.v25i1.dc6par6)