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David Albert, Yakir Aharonov and Lev Vaidman introduced the weak value associated with preparing $|i⟩$ and selecting a later outcome $|f⟩$: $A_w=⟨f|A|i⟩/⟨f|i⟩$ when the denominator is nonzero. A sufficiently weak coupling followed by this selection can produce a conditional average pointer shift outside the eigenvalue range of the measured observable. This concerns the statistics of selected weak measurements; it does not assert that a single projective quantum measurement returns an otherwise forbidden eigenvalue.^[ref]