Logical connectives and statistical operators are distinct measurement choices, not interchangeable operations.

Evidence

In the literature on statistical measures the two dominant operators are the mean or correlation. If we add these to the list we have a number of possibilities for building concepts and their corresponding quantitative measures. The key point in the context of this chapter is that they are not the same things. The minimum is not the maximum, 7Hermann (1969) uses a cube to conceptualize “crisis.” — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts, 283

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Berg-Schlosser/Milgrom insistence that institutional and analytic machinery imported from another domain carries hidden assumptions; here it’s importing mean/correlation into concept formation.
• DEFINE: Clarifies the distinction between logical operators (min/max) and statistical operators (mean/correlation) for concept-building.