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A hierarchical approach to measuring contextuality

Authors
VĂ­ctor Hernando Cervantes Botero
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ~ Department of Psychology
Dr. Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov
Purdue University ~ Psychological Sciences
Abstract

Many systems in which contextuality is studied have in common that their (non)contextuality is determined by particular configurations of pairwise correlations. Such systems are used to describe the question order effect in psychology, the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm paradigm in quantum physics, and many other situations. The prominence of pairwise correlations leads one to the incorrect intuitive idea that all contextuality appears on the level of pairwise associations, perhaps even only within cyclic subsystems. We present a new, hierarchical measure of (non)contextuality in which contextuality may arise at the level of pairwise, triple, quadruple, etc. associations of random variables. This measure allows one to look at (non)contextuality as varying not only in degree but also in pattern.

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contextuality
cyclic systems
measures of contextuality
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Cervantes Botero, V., & Dzhafarov, E. (2021, July). A hierarchical approach to measuring contextuality. Paper presented at Virtual MathPsych/ICCM 2021. Via mathpsych.org/presentation/449.