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The low efficiency of detectors in all EPR experiments with optical photons makes the use of the fair sampling assumption unavoidable. This assumption is reputed to be both reasonable and impossible to test experimentally. We argue that there is, in fact, little evidence supporting the fair sampling assumption, and we propose an experiment capable of putting this crucial hypothesis to a test.
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Adenier, G. A fair sampling test for EPR-Bell experiments. J Russ Laser Res 29, 409–417 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10946-008-9031-4
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