How Feedback Loops Work
Reinforcing loops amplify changesviral growth and panic spirals. Balancing loops stabilize systems through homeostasis and resistance.
What was corrected
Graham Turner's real 2012 GAIA paper on Limits to Growth was correctly cited but credited with an unverified 'correlation exceeding 0.95' statistic not in the real paper. Hau Lee's real 1997 bullwhip-effect research was misattributed to Harvard Business Review (it was published in Sloan Management Review and Management Science) and credited with an unverified '60% reduction' statistic. Frank Jotzo's real Australian carbon-price research was misattributed to a '2016 Nature Climate Change' paper (the real work is a 2014/2015 ANU working paper with Marianna O'Gorman) with unverified 7%/9% emissions figures (the real finding was approximately 8.2% during the carbon-price period). An entire study was unverified, attributed to real Wikipedia researcher Morten Warncke-Wang (a '2018 ACM Transactions on the Web' paper analyzing '318 million edits' with specific correction-time figures) with no real counterpart found. The real, well-known 2005 Nature study by Jim Giles comparing Wikipedia to Britannica was accurately cited but rounded Wikipedia's real 3.9-errors-per-article figure up to 4.0.
Turner's finding restated without the unverified correlation number. Hau Lee's finding corrected to the right journals and restated as the real qualitative bullwhip-effect finding without the unverified percentage. Jotzo's research corrected to the real venue/authorship and the real approximate 8 percent figure, with the unverified 9% repeal statistic removed. The unverified Warncke-Wang study replaced with an accurate general statement about Wikipedia's improving correction speed, attributable to his real broader body of work rather than one unverified paper. The Britannica comparison's Wikipedia error rate corrected from 4.0 to the real 3.9.
Why this is better
Independent verification found Jay Forrester's Urban Dynamics claim and John Sterman's 1989 Beer Distribution Game paper citation were both fully accurate and left untouched - this article's fabrication was concentrated in specific misattributed venues and unverified statistics layered onto otherwise real research, rather than wholesale invention.
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