Paradoxum spectatoris

Paradoxum spectatoris^[1] in scientiis socialibus (et physica et physica experimentali) est paradoxum quo res quae observatur a spectatore vel investigatore praesente inscie impellitur. Vocabulum in sociolinguistica excogitatum est a Gulielmo Labov, glottologo Americano, qui id sic explicavit: "propositum investigationis linguisticae in commune necesse est cognoscere quomodo homines sermocinantur cum artificiose non observantur; sed haec data obtinere possumus solum per observationem artificiosam."^[2]

Notae

↑ Ex Anglico observer's paradox.
↑ Anglice: "the aim of linguistic research in the community must be to find out how people talk when they are not being systematically observed; yet we can only obtain this data by systematic observation" (Labov 1972:209).

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