Feedback loop

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A feedback loop is a system where outputs are fed back into the system as inputs, increasing or decreasing effects.

Often feedback and self-correction leads to adjustments varying with differences between actual output and desired output.

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They come in a many places, such as the below links:

• Behavioral finance
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Cycle of poverty
• Economics
• Global Warming
• Hyperinflation
• Marketing
• Population dynamics
• Prostate cancer

The term is at times overused, difficult to define, and can be a buzzword.

See also:

• Downward spiral
• Feedback
• Feed-forward
• Negative feedback
• Positive feedback
• Positive feedback loop
• Upward spiral
• Virtuous circle and vicious circle