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-I have deleted three tiny sub-sections from the article recently, as, as far as I can see, they do not describe a mechanism in which a positive feedback loop, as described in this article, can be identified in the description or in the reliable sources.
+[[File:Sciences humaines.svg|40px]] This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2021-08-19">19 August 2021</span> and <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2021-12-10">10 December 2021</span>. Further details are available [[Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/USC-Upstate/Sports_Psychology_(Fall_2021)|on the course page]]. Student editor(s): [[User:Jasmineab3|Jasmineab3]]. Peer reviewers: [[User:AlanieNF|AlanieNF]].
-*Human sense of sight: This unreferenced section seemed to try to draw a connection between reading damaging your eyes, reading increasing your IQ, and an increased IQ making you want to read more, which damaged your eyes even more than before. I don't think any of this can be supported by ophthalmic, academic, medical or educational research, and there is certainly no one I can find calling this (non-existent) effect a positive feedback loop.
-*Substance dependence and addiction: This section fairly accurately described the mechanism of acclimation among drug addicts, and the devastating effects this can lead to, but none of the Wikipedia articles links mentioned positive feedback. The addict's body acclimates to the drug, they take more, overdose and die. But for positive feedback to occur, the acclimation would have to force them to take more, when actually they choose to take more. The addictive personality and possible suicidal tendencies have important parts to play. Who is to say that the addictive personality is created or strengthened by the increasing doses? If the medical world find this a helpful way to explain drug overdoses to at-risk patients, or to their grieving relatives, then it will be easy to find the references to those recommendations. If not then I don't see how our unreferenced [[WP:OR]] will help anyone, especially after considering [[WP:MEDRS]].
-* Internet recommender systems: This section seemed simply to muddle the idea of people writing or ticking that they liked a product they had bought (i.e. giving 'feedback' that is 'positive'), with the actual concept of a positive feedback loop. Giving a product marketing website 'positive feedback' about the products they sell may lead somehow to you buying more stuff, but I think the confusion of the two terms is too prominent to make anything encyclopedic about this. If this is established knowledge about recommender systems, then let's just see a few quotes from the published sources where the term 'positive feedback' is explicitly mentioned.
-Maybe we should require that sources used to introduce new topics at least mention the term 'positive feedback' somewhere in the text. --[[User:Nigelj|Nigelj]] ([[User talk:Nigelj|talk]]) 20:46, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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-{{Substituted comment|length=252|lastedit=20070219001915|comment=Rated "high" as high school/SAT biology content. This article needs biological/biochemical examples of feedback regulation, e.g. of enzyme activity or gene expression. It also needs references. - [[User:Tameeria|tameeria]] 00:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)}}
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