caa a22 4500 463197038 CHVBK 20180406164925.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10773-006-9297-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10773-006-9297-7 Wright Ron Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 245002, 85724-5002, Tucson, AZ, USA aut Statistical Structures Underlying Quantum Mechanics and Social Science [Elektronische Daten] [Ron Wright] 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. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Foulis-Randall Operational Statistics nationallicence Fuzzy Trace theory nationallicence memory nationallicence generalized statistical framework nationallicence quantum structures nationallicence social science nationallicence cognitive framing nationallicence packing nationallicence subjective probability nationallicence quantum mechanics nationallicence quantum logic nationallicence International Journal of Theoretical Physics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 46/8(2007-08-01), 2026-2045 0020-7748 46:8<2026 2007 46 10773 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-006-9297-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-006-9297-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wright Ron Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 245002, 85724-5002, Tucson, AZ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Theoretical Physics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 46/8(2007-08-01), 2026-2045 0020-7748 46:8<2026 2007 46 10773 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer