Statistical Structures Underlying Quantum Mechanics and Social Science
| Autor: | Ron Wright |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Quantum Physics Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) General Mathematics Categorical quantum mechanics FOS: Physical sciences Interpretations of quantum mechanics Quantum logic Minority interpretations of quantum mechanics Quantum probability Quantum mechanics Quantum cognition Social science Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Quantum information science Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Theoretical Physics. 46:2026-2045 |
| ISSN: | 1572-9575 0020-7748 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10773-006-9297-7 |
| Popis: | Common observations of the unpredictability of human behavior and the influence of one question on the answer to another suggest social science experiments are probabilistic and may be mutually incompatible with one another, characteristics attributed to quantum mechanics (as distinguished from classical mechanics). This paper examines this superficial similarity in depth using the Foulis-Randall Operational Statistics language. In contradistinction to physics, social science deals with complex, open systems for which the set of possible experiments is unknowable and outcome interference is a graded phenomenon resulting from the ways the human brain processes information. It is concluded that social science is, in some ways, "less classical" than quantum mechanics, but that generalized "quantum" structures may provide appropriate descriptions of social science experiments. Specific challenges to extending "quantum" structures to social science are identified. Comment: Talk presented at QS2002 Vienna, July 2002 |
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