Classical versus quantum probability: Comments on the paper “On universality of classical probability with contextually labeled random variables” by E. Dzhafarov and M. Kon

Recently Dzhafarov and Kon published the paper advertising the possibility to use the coupling technique of classical probability theory to model incompatible observables in quantum physics and quantum-like models of psychology. Here I present comments on this paper by stressing advantages and disadvantages.

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