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| | History of Q Methodology |
 | | Spearman once referred to his protégé as the most creative statistician in psychology, but from virtually the moment of its inception, the broader considerations of Q as a methodology were destined to be controversial and to be shunned by most of academic psychology. |
 | | For Burt, factor analysis and quantum theory were linked by analogy only, and this was due in large part to the phenomena being measured: R methodology measures objective variables, such as intelligence, whereas quantum mechanics measures not variables, but states (of energy). |
 | | It is this naturalism, in part, that drew Stephenson to the interbehavioral psychology of Kantor (1959) and to the confluence of Kantor, Spearman, and quantum theory (Stephenson, 1982, 1984). |
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