A comment on "How the result of a single coin toss can turn out to be 100 heads"

Eliahu Cohen

A comment on "How the result of a single coin toss can turn out to be 100 heads"

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In [1] the authors claim that "weak values are not inherently quantum but rather a purely statistical feature". I argue that their model reproduces only few elements of weak measurements but fails to reproduce all the other intrinsically quantum features.

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