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Charles Lieberman, step away from the science textbook please. | 10 comments (10 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

he probably meant it like the way 'quantum leap' by fleece (4.00 / 1) #1 Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 06:45:13 PM EST

is commonly used

: I think paradigm is the word he was looking for by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #3 Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 07:18:27 PM EST

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: Definitely. by ni (2.00 / 0) #4 Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 08:26:46 PM EST

He meant to indicate that it was a sudden change from one thing to another without passing through intermediate points.

"Not of this world..." -- 256, on the subject of the New Jersey Turnpike
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: TV show by Merekat (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 09:51:11 AM EST

Now, if people had watched Quantum Leap the TV show properly, they would have learned that the leaps are very very small as that is where the string of time meets.
I miss that programme, though not the later series.

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maybe should step towards a science textbook? -nt- by clover kicker (4.00 / 1) #2 Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 07:06:59 PM EST

Don't you know anything? by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 06:17:24 AM EST

A quantum change is a BIG change, because quantum is a BIG thing

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It's political correctness gone mad!

I hate to rain on everyone's parade but... by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 08:35:01 AM EST

I think that usage was fine. A quantum state is indeterminate, but that doesn't mean its continuous. For example, the steps between electron energy levels are completely discrete with no intermediate states. In that sense his use of it to describe the effect of a panic on behavior is appropriate.

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Has anybody seen my clue? I know I had it when I came in here.

Pop psych term, not a science term. by Christopher Robin was Murdered (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 01:23:11 PM EST

I think Lieberman was refering to the work of University of New Mexico psych profs William Miller and Janet C'deBaca, who, in their 2001 book "Quantum Change," defined a quantum change as a sudden insight that causes a profound personal change.

The term has since lost its connotations of insight and positive change, entering the pop psych parlance as any sudden, seemingly complete change in beliefs and attitudes.

that could be possible by dr k (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 02:06:27 PM EST

but it still doesn't make any sense to say that "being panicked" is a quantum change from not being panicked, particularly where the market and/or collective behavior is concerned.

As everyone knows, the scale goes:

ecstatic (irrational behavior)
confident
comfortable
calm
concerned
anxious
terrified
panicked (irrational behavior)

Once the panic is over, people will still be terrified.

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: I think his argument is that there's no scale. by Christopher Robin was Murdered (2.00 / 0) #10 Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 03:00:50 PM EST

Why make small jumps when you can swing wildly between absolute bowel-loosening terror and completely irrational purse-string loosening exuberance?
It is a crappy way to run your investment portfolio, but it sure is exciting.

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