 Moreover, the theorem due to Pusey, Barrett, and Rudolph (2012)—which according to Leifer (2014) uses the least contestable assumptions of all—relies on an additional independence assumption according to which the ontic states of two or more distinct, randomly prepared, systems are uncorrelated before undergoing joint measurement. Wharton (2014: 203) points out that in a framework that is open to retrocausality this is a problematic assumption because one would then expect “past correlations [to] arise […] for exactly the same reason that future correlations arise in entanglement experiments”. Exploring the prospects for retrocausal accounts is therefore one—perhaps the—important open route for developing an attractive \(\psi\)-epistemic model that may be able to explain the quantum correlations.