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Another Survey of Foundational Attitudes Towards Quantum Mechanics — mentioned by n4r9

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 07:58:39 GMT

Warning: you shouldn't be too quick to extrapolate anything about general attitudes in quantum foundations towards various interpretations from this "snapshot" poll. There exist at least two other polls I know of with very different results[0,1]. Interesting quote from one of the abstracts: > the results do strongly suggest several interesting cultural facts -- for example, that there exist, within the broad field of "quantum foundations", sub-communities with quite different views, and that (relatedly) there is probably even significantly more controversy about several fundamental issues…

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Another Survey of Foundational Attitudes Towards Quantum Mechanics — mentioned by n4r9

Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:19:45 GMT

I meant "rigorous and comprehensive" to include "representative of the entire quantum community". That poll was conducted at a single conference and had 33 participants. The bias inherent in this approach can be seen when the same poll was conducted at two other conferences: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2719 http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4646 In both cases, de-Broglie Bohm interpretations ruled the day. As the abstract of the latter paper states: > ...the results do strongly suggest several interesting cultural facts -- for example, that there exist, within the broad field of "quantum foundations"…

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