QBism and the Ithaca Desiderata

Understand

In 1996, N.

• David Mermin proposed a set of desiderata for an understanding of quantum mechanics, the "Ithaca Interpretation".
• In 2012, Mermin became a public advocate of QBism, an interpretation due to Christopher Fuchs and Ruediger Schack.
• Here, we evaluate QBism with respect to the Ithaca Interpretation's six desiderata, in the process also evaluating those desiderata themselves.