Coercion, Synchronous...

[From Rick Marken (980625.1100)]

Bill Powers (980624.10217 MDT) --
Bill Powers (980525.10564 MDT) --

Ah. That was refreshing.

Bill says:

I quibble about what happens when the coercee's gain is set to
zero -- the coercer is still controlling the variable q, but I
don't think that he is "coercing" it.

Quibble accepted (for the sake of our secret cabal;-))

Of course, "coercion" is just a word that describes a side effect
of the operation of interacting control systems. Now that we
are in modeling mode, perhaps those who are interested can get
back to the original topic -- RTP. What I can ask now is "does
my model of coercion give an accurate representation of the
relationship between RTP teacher and students (assuming more
than one coercee in the model) in the RTP classroom"?

Best

Rick

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