 The fact that interference is typically very well suppressed between localised states of macroscopic objects suggests that it is at least relevant to why macroscopic objects in fact appear to us to be in localised states. In the special case of measuring apparatuses, it would then be relevant to why we never observe an apparatus pointing, say, to two different results. Does modelling measurements including the decoherence interactions with the environment allow one to derive that measurements always have results? This is somewhat part of the ‘folklore’ of decoherence, but as pointed out by many physicists and philosophers alike (e.g. Pearle 1997; Bub 1997, Chapter 8; Adler 2003; Zeh 2003a, pp. 14–15), it is not the case: while decoherence does explain why we do not observe superpositions of measurement results, it does not explain why we do observe measurement results in the first place.