Observer effect
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Observer effect may refer to:
- Observer effect (information technology), the impact of observing a process while it is running
- Observer effect (physics), the impact of observing a physical system
- Observer-expectancy effect of psychology, how people change their behavior when aware of being watched
- Heisenbug of computer programming, where a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it
It may also refer to:
- Observer Effect, an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, named after this effect
It is sometimes conflated with:
- Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
- Actor-observer bias
See also [edit]
- Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment, often described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger
- Hawthorne effect
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