标题： 驯服纠缠 显示英文标题

标题： Taming Entanglement

摘要： 在统计学和因果建模中，选择过程常常会在一个不相关的集合的子集中引入相关性。我们提出，EPR 和贝尔相关性是这种类型的选取伪象。选择过程是相关实验初始状态的制备。初始状态的选择相当于对一个更大的、不相关的、可能历史的虚拟集合进行子集选取。因为这是预先选取而非事后选取，所产生的相关性支持了EPR论证和贝尔非定域性的直观反事实。在这方面以及其时间方向上，这种情况不同于常见的选取偏差形式。鉴于量子纠缠的普遍性，这一结果可能对因果建模的研究者具有独立的兴趣。本文最后讨论了它在该领域的新含义。 显示英文摘要

摘要： In statistics and causal modeling it is common for a selection process to induce correlations in a subset of an uncorrelated ensemble. We propose that EPR and Bell correlations are selection artefacts of this kind. The selection process is preparation of the initial state of the relevant experiments. Choice of initial state amounts to preselection of a subensemble of a larger, uncorrelated, virtual ensemble of possble histories. Because it is preselection rather than postselection, the resulting correlations support the intuitive counterfactuals of the EPR argument and Bell nonlocality. In this respect, and in its temporal orientation, the case differs from familiar forms of selection bias. Given the ubiquity of quantum entanglement, the result may thus be of independent interest to students of causal modeling. The paper concludes with a discussion of its novel implications in that field.