Q-analysis : A hard language for the soft sciences |
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Authors: | R H Atkin |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK. |
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Abstract: | The relevant data sets in a ‘soft’ science can be manipulated and analysed using topology, an exercise which also reveals the ‘backcloth’ which limits or modifies such interrelationships. The method is currently being used in many fields: eg industrial relations, medicine, and architecture. An example of a university's committee structure is used to show how the underlying, and often unnoticed, geometry can frustrate the aims of an organisation. |
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