Given that the case I had in mind (On the Media's Bob Garfield) specifically mentioned Heisenberg in his discussion, concerning of political polling, the error if any doesn't originate with me:
BOB GARFIELD What you're saying seems to be describing the Heisenberg effect, where the act of measurement actually affects the experiment itself. You believe that voters are actually behaving influenced in part by what they're reading in the polls and particularly the models.
> The mechanism of the HUP resembles the OE in parts at least.
OE was initially proposed as a mechanism behind the uncertainty principle, but it's actually just an attribute of the wave nature of quantum physics:
> Heisenberg utilized such an observer effect at the quantum level (see below) as a physical "explanation" of quantum uncertainty. It has since become clearer, however, that the uncertainty principle is inherent in the properties of all wave-like systems, and that it arises in quantum mechanics simply due to the matter wave nature of all quantum objects.
BOB GARFIELD What you're saying seems to be describing the Heisenberg effect, where the act of measurement actually affects the experiment itself. You believe that voters are actually behaving influenced in part by what they're reading in the polls and particularly the models.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/forecasts-... (select "transcript" for full text)
The mechanism of the HUP resembles the OE in parts at least.