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In fact, all statistical experiments, from clinical trials to observations of Bell's Inequality depend on the idea that there exists either free will or true randomness (and that we can base our decisions on that source of randomness). If neither exist, then there is no such thing as statistically independent events, and no way to make statistical observations (since that would imply that your choice of what to measure would always be correlated with the result of your measurement).


> either free will or true randomness

Isn't unpredictability enough?


No, you need statistical independence of the measurement choice to the measured quantity. In superdeterminism, this is not possible.




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