Answer a dumb-dumb question about QM?

[AtaraxJim]

Hi All,

I'm hoping someone here will be able to answer what I hope isn't too dumb-dumb entry level stuff on QM, but I see much ballyhoo about entanglement and I think I'm definitely missing something.

The punchline of my question is this: how do we know when doing the typical remote measurement of one of a pair of entangled particles that there's really spooky action at a distance rather than that our experimental set-up caused the two to take on (anti-?)correlated properties that we later uncover?

Thanks in advance!

[Eugene I]

I would suggest you to ask this question on the Physics Forum because your question is purely technical and has nothing to do with philosophy

[AtaraxJim]

Ah, that looks like a good spot to ask, thanks.