Count the Negative Links to Tell a Reinforcing Loop from a Balancing One
The reserved counting rule from the section 5 table, kept as its own node because it is a separable procedure a student can be tested on with a single Apply question, distinct from knowing what the two loop types do. Rests on lop-causal-link-polarity and lop-feedback-loop. lop-multiple-loops-on-one-stock, lop-draw-a-cld-from-a-prose-story and all of arc- rest on it, since an archetype is named by the types of the two loops in it. Stops short of loop gain and any quantitative strength comparison.
Causal Loop Diagrams in Systems Thinking
A causal loop diagram represents a system as variables connected by directed causal links, each labeled with a polarity (positive, when the linked variables move in the same direction; negative, when…