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Michael Commons

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Michael Lamport Commons, born in 1939, is a theoretical behavioral scientist and a complex systems scientist who developed the model of hierarchical complexity. The model is a framework for scoring how complex a behavior is, such as verbal reasoning or other cognitive tasks, and it quantifies the order of hierarchical complexity of a task based on mathematical principles of how the information is organized. It was developed by Commons and Francis Richards in the early 1980s.

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Michael Commons
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was born in 1939 in Los Angeles and grew up in Hollywood
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