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Those numbers suggest that 36% don't believe in fundamental randomness. And that's given the status quo that interpretations are philosophy not worth to think about so people are indulged to believe in random stuff, add to this cognitive inertia due to education largely following Copenhagen, and 64% doesn't look like a very big number. Just how implausible must be Copenhagen to lose 36% in such comfy conditions?

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But the other 3 results are that the randomness is "irreducible", which I'm assuming means we can never actually get rid of the randomness. And smaller portion believe that randomness is just apparent, which I'm assuming they're referring to Many Words interpretation. Neither of those gets you to determinism from our perspective though.

They actually ask later in the poll which interpretation is their favorite (Q12) and 42% pick Copenhagen. But the only deterministic one on that list is the pilot wave theory, and that got a 0. Some did pick "other", so that might include something deterministic, but based on the results of Q1 I'm assuming not.

Irreducible, but not fundamental? If randomness doesn't exist, how your perspective matters? And why do you think ignorance can't be fixed? That's an antiscientific claim.

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