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    "abstract": "Common observations of the unpredictability of human behavior and the\ninfluence of one question on the answer to another suggest social science\nexperiments are probabilistic and may be mutually incompatible with one\nanother, characteristics attributed to quantum mechanics (as distinguished from\nclassical mechanics). This paper examines this superficial similarity in depth\nusing the Foulis-Randall Operational Statistics language. In contradistinction\nto physics, social science deals with complex, open systems for which the set\nof possible experiments is unknowable and outcome interference is a graded\nphenomenon resulting from the ways the human brain processes information. It is\nconcluded that social science is, in some ways, \"less classical\" than quantum\nmechanics, but that generalized \"quantum\" structures may provide appropriate\ndescriptions of social science experiments. Specific challenges to extending\n\"quantum\" structures to social science are identified.",
    "arxiv_id": "quant-ph/0307234",
    "authors": [
      "Ron Wright"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "quant-ph"
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    "title": "Statistical Structures Underlying Quantum Mechanics and Social Science",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0307234"
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