I thought the same thing when someone showed me the popular "Dr. Quantum" double slit video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc https://www.youtube.com

I thought the same thing when someone showed me the popular "Dr. Quantum" double slit video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc). Generally a decent layman's explanation of the experiment, but they had to conflate quantum mechanics with magic by saying "the atom knew it was being watched..." It's very hard to handle these misconceptions once they're already so widespread.