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   "text": "Quantum decision models break down on complex real world decisions such as mortgages, because there is no clear way to partition the utility and the attraction functions when the underlying factors cannot be known with precision.",
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   "text": "Both classical and behavioral approaches fail to account adequately for preference reversal, and that joint failure, not mere novelty, is what justifies an alternative quantum decision framework.",
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