ELI5, if bits are like a lightbulb being turned on and off, what are qubits?

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ELI5, if bits are like a lightbulb being turned on and off, what are qubits?

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Lightbulbs that you can vary their intensity, not fully on/off. In my head I’m associating it more with analogue data rather than discrete binary data.