If electrons behave differently when observed, how do we know what they do when they’re not observed?

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How do we know they behave differently when they’re observed in general? I know they can tell they’re being observed by interacting with the detector but how do we know that their behavior changes?

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You observe the results even if you don’t observe the particle.

For example, I have a living room with a big dog in it. The dog can see me. He behaves well.

I leave the room, come back three hours later. There’s dog hair on the couch, the leftovers disappeared from the table, and there’s a trail of fluff from the destroyed pillow all the way to the corner where the dog is sleeping.

We didn’t observe the destruction, but we roughly know what happened.

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