Talk:Positive feedback

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hello, i was just wondering who the author of this article is? i need to know for referencing the information for my essay. thank-you very much. my e-mail is teenateichroeb@yahoo.com

Greetings. There is rarely any one author per se on any given Wikipedia article. I direct you to this page which talks about the best way to go about citing Wikipedia. Have fun! RadicalBender 16:35, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] games?

I don't understand the gaming examples. --Abdull 21:33, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure how to improve the explanation. The idea is that there's an "upward spiral", where improvement in the player's position leads to more and more rapid improvement. Please feel free to edit it, or maybe visit your bookstore and take a look at the source, Rules of Play. Deco 03:55, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

surely this gaming example is trivial. It adds nothing, so I'm removing it.

[edit] Correlation is not causation - amendment to World System section

Originally this read as:

"The hyperbolic growth of the world population observed till the 1970s has been recently shown to be accounted for by a non-linear second order positive feedback between the demographic growth and technological development..."

This is a very strong statement. It implies that the argument put forward in Korotayev is an objective fact rather than a well-supported hypothesis. I have, therefore, changed “to be accounted for” to the uncontentious “correlated to”.

I also made minor amendments to remove the passive voice.

--Roger Mexico 15:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)