[dogma1138]

QM can be defined by the fact that the reality you observe isn't the "actual reality", but overall it doesn't really matter.

Wave-particle duality is a bit of a misnomer it's more of a pop-sci concept, all particles are defined by their wave function and there isn't a "particle function".

And if you think that we are too biased towards picturing everything made out of discrete parts then you won't like QM which is basically what the Q stands for which is "quanta" as in the smallest clump-thing-w/e of something.

That said most people that choose to study physics in high school (year 10-12) and or college would be exposed to Quantum Field Theory which makes everything make considerably more sense when you start thinking about everything in terms of fields.

Once you no longer think of an electron as an individual thing but as a electron field that extends through all space and the particles are the quanta of that field as in localized excitations of the field which when they reach a certain amplitude or energy level bring forth something we can measure and identify as an electron.

I wish QFT would be popularized more because it would bring so many important concepts into the common sense realm and it would actually be easier to explain things like why do particle accelerators work.