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Before You Act, Trace Every Loop the Change Touches and Name the One That Will Push Back

The prediction method the outcome claims require before ranking interventions. Rests on lev-leverage-ladder-orders-intervention-points and on lop- (drawing a causal loop diagram, multiple loops on one stock). Stops carefully at the bnd- line: policy resistance and counterintuitive behaviour as a phenomenon are bnd-'s node, so this one owns only the pre-intervention procedure and its output. It is the required parent of lev-worse-before-better.

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Merton's Law of Unintended Consequences in Sociology

Robert K. Merton's law of unintended consequences (1936) holds that intentional social action — a law, program, or regulation aimed at a clear social good — frequently produces outcomes that were nei…