Correction: Understanding Complexity in Systems: A Beginner's Guide
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- When Notes Fly
- Topic
- Complexity Science
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 29 July 2026
The exact change
Article cited specific studies, presentations, and statistics for real companies, researchers, and events that, on independent verification, do not exist or materially misrepresent the documented timeline/findings.
Removed the fabricated study citations and invented statistics while preserving the real underlying facts (Lilly's real adaptive-trial-design push, Curitiba's real transit design philosophy, Sornette's real precursor-signal research, Bar-Yam's real COVID-era policy analysis, and the blackout's real scale and cascading-failure mechanism).
Suggested change
See before/after.
Why this is better
Real researchers, companies, and events were used as anchors for invented studies, conference presentations, and statistics - the Barabasi-Albert 1999 Science paper and the P&G/Lafley/Huston-Sakkab 2006 HBR citation in the same article both verified as fully accurate.
How this record is verified
- The contribution is tied to a real, identified contributor, not an anonymous byline.
- It counts only because the publisher, When Notes Fly, accepted it. Self-claimed work earns nothing.
- It is recorded against a specific page and cannot be bought or edited after the fact.