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Is there a problem with quantum models of psychological measurements?
This article presents the results of an experiment, called the ABA experiment, designed to test a fundamental prediction of quantum probability theory when applied to human judgments and decisions. The prediction concerns the effect of one measurement on another when the measurements are incompatibl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678685/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29117246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187733 |
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description | This article presents the results of an experiment, called the ABA experiment, designed to test a fundamental prediction of quantum probability theory when applied to human judgments and decisions. The prediction concerns the effect of one measurement on another when the measurements are incompatible (i.e., the answers to the measurements depend on the order of these measurements). After an initial measurement of an opinion on an issue, A, the answer to a second measurement on the same issue A immediately afterwards will certainly be the same as the first. However, according to the uncertainty principle, if a measurement of opinion on issue A is followed by an incompatible measurement on another issue, B, then the answer to a second measurement on issue A will become uncertain. This prediction was tested with 325 participants on a wide range of 12 different set of issues that were previously shown to be incompatible. Contrary to previous claims published in this journal, the empirical findings support the prediction of quantum probability theory applied to human judgments. |
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spelling | pubmed-56786852017-11-18 Is there a problem with quantum models of psychological measurements? Busemeyer, Jerome Wang, Zheng PLoS One Research Article This article presents the results of an experiment, called the ABA experiment, designed to test a fundamental prediction of quantum probability theory when applied to human judgments and decisions. The prediction concerns the effect of one measurement on another when the measurements are incompatible (i.e., the answers to the measurements depend on the order of these measurements). After an initial measurement of an opinion on an issue, A, the answer to a second measurement on the same issue A immediately afterwards will certainly be the same as the first. However, according to the uncertainty principle, if a measurement of opinion on issue A is followed by an incompatible measurement on another issue, B, then the answer to a second measurement on issue A will become uncertain. This prediction was tested with 325 participants on a wide range of 12 different set of issues that were previously shown to be incompatible. Contrary to previous claims published in this journal, the empirical findings support the prediction of quantum probability theory applied to human judgments. Public Library of Science 2017-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5678685/ /pubmed/29117246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187733 Text en © 2017 Busemeyer, Wang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Busemeyer, Jerome Wang, Zheng Is there a problem with quantum models of psychological measurements? |
title | Is there a problem with quantum models of psychological measurements? |
title_full | Is there a problem with quantum models of psychological measurements? |
title_fullStr | Is there a problem with quantum models of psychological measurements? |
title_full_unstemmed | Is there a problem with quantum models of psychological measurements? |
title_short | Is there a problem with quantum models of psychological measurements? |
title_sort | is there a problem with quantum models of psychological measurements? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678685/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29117246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187733 |
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