AIM Framework glossary
Diagnostic Inversion
Canonical definition
The testable prediction that the magnitude of quantum-cognition violations (QQ-equality, the conjunction fallacy, order effects) in any domain correlates with that domain's Coupling Strength and Decoherence Time profile. Domains of high Coupling Strength and long Decoherence Time (politics, identity, social Status) produce larger violations than domains of low Coupling Strength and short Decoherence Time (physical measurement, logical reasoning, well-calibrated empirical questions). The prediction is derived from the three-level mechanism connecting memory-recall self-coupling, Source Opacity amplification, and Preconscious Transmission to non-commutative probability assignments.
Explanation
Psychologists have long recorded that people's answers depend on the order in which questions are asked, in ways ordinary probability does not permit. These are usually catalogued as biases, one anomaly at a time. If the framework's account of the Self-Model is right, they are not a catalogue of separate errors but the visible signature of one architecture, and that converts them from a list into a measurement. The inversion is in the direction of inference. Instead of using an established theory to predict a bias, the bias is used to read off a structural parameter of the domain in which it occurs. Order effects should be large where Beliefs circulate through self-reinforcing recall and rarely meet a Referent that could settle them, which is to say in politics, identity, and Status, and small where reality answers back quickly, which is to say in physics and arithmetic. Anyone can test this against the existing literature. If the correlation is absent, the architectural account of the quantum-cognition findings fails.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Named Result (empirically testable prediction).
Derivation
Chapter 15, Section 15.12; stated as a formal result at Section 15.15 and as a falsification criterion in the same chapter.