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msumm21 said:Why not go with a simple explanation that agrees with all experiments--when a person measures a qubit it's collapsed? Even if that person wasn't me, or conducted the experiment in a different room/lab. If I don't know the measurement result, then I'd consider it a mixed state.
Practically speaking, we can always act for all intents and purposes as if all macroscopic quantities have definite values at all times. So if a person makes a measurement of spin, then whether he measured up or down is a macroscopic fact, and so it's either one or the other.
However, this practical approach seems inconsistent with the laws of quantum mechanics, which make no distinction between macroscopic and microscopic.