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People keep explaining like it's a huge surprise.
I think I am technically a physicist so this could be a case of xkcd 2501 but it seems obvious enough.
Surely nobody actually believes that is how it works. I think I understood it that way and was mind blown for like 5min before being sceptical and asking for clarification and still being mind blown by how it was actually meant. I was a child when that happened.
All the adults I've spoken to about it learned about it school and understood straight away. That is of course completely biased though.
There are entire new age movements based on the misunderstanding of quantum mechanics.
Off the top of my head: "What the Bleep do we Know?" and "The Secret" are two that come to mind.
Not sure how popular they are these days, but they were huge in the 00s-10s
It's probably (hopefully) not a majority, but a disturbing number of people really do believe it works like that. I've once had someone, whose intelligence I used to respect, calmly explain to me that telekinesis is possible because "QM proves that the mind can influence matter".
I wouldn't be so sure. There's a disturbingly high amount of people (including adults) out there who take Schrödinger's cat literally.
I may not have been paying attention in school. Once adult, I read about it but wondered what it means "when observed". Couldn't find anywherw that explained it clearly. Figured it was surely related to a physical process necessary to get signals, but I couldn't know what exactly. Now, I know.
A lot of people do believe it unfortunately.