Human Thinking is Full of Traps – and One of the Most Dangerous is Survivorship Bias

By “positive feedback” (positive feedback, Positive Rückkopplung) we mean a process that excites itself. The elements of a system interact in such a way that the process which triggered the effect becomes ever stronger. This phenomenon occurs in technical devices, in biological systems, and in society as well. For example, everyone has probably experienced the … Read more