Please read that link you just posted, it supports my statement 100%.
Also take a look at the “talk section” and you will see that there are several people criticizing the biased presentation of MWI’s popularity, eventhough it clearly says the vast majority rejects MWI. so it’s even wose than presented.
Next time read your own sources before using them to advocate for your own position.
Also the fact that there are several people who consider MWI to be a nice mental model to use while doing physics, but ultimately not the fundamental representation of reality, these people will often vote “yes”.
This is the reason for Tegmark sometimes starting his presentations by taking a poll of the audience and then go on to say “now out of those who support MWI, how many believe these worlds REALLY exists and this represents reality?”
Then usually quite a few takes their hands down and no longer should be counted as “pro-MWI”, Martin Gardner explains this somewhat in the link you gave above...
Lastly there are yet 2 more factors affecting these results, when a proponent of MWI decides to take a poll, it is highly likely that his audience is not a nonbiased random sample of the physics community, it’s highly likely that other MWI sympathizers show up to his talk because they already share his views.
This is why it’s always emphasized that it is a “highly unscientific poll”
Last but not least you’ve got to realize that there are somewhere around 10 different Many worlds interpretations and 5 different Many Minds interpretations, all of these people would say “yes” when asked “do you support MWI?” when in reality they are not in agreement on very important details at all...
Please read that link you just posted, it supports my statement 100%. Also take a look at the “talk section” and you will see that there are several people criticizing the biased presentation of MWI’s popularity, eventhough it clearly says the vast majority rejects MWI. so it’s even wose than presented. Next time read your own sources before using them to advocate for your own position.
Also the fact that there are several people who consider MWI to be a nice mental model to use while doing physics, but ultimately not the fundamental representation of reality, these people will often vote “yes”. This is the reason for Tegmark sometimes starting his presentations by taking a poll of the audience and then go on to say “now out of those who support MWI, how many believe these worlds REALLY exists and this represents reality?” Then usually quite a few takes their hands down and no longer should be counted as “pro-MWI”, Martin Gardner explains this somewhat in the link you gave above...
Lastly there are yet 2 more factors affecting these results, when a proponent of MWI decides to take a poll, it is highly likely that his audience is not a nonbiased random sample of the physics community, it’s highly likely that other MWI sympathizers show up to his talk because they already share his views. This is why it’s always emphasized that it is a “highly unscientific poll”
Last but not least you’ve got to realize that there are somewhere around 10 different Many worlds interpretations and 5 different Many Minds interpretations, all of these people would say “yes” when asked “do you support MWI?” when in reality they are not in agreement on very important details at all...