But just ten minutes into his presentation, a collaborator interjected telling that “something seemed off to them.” As it turns out, the way the new algorithm handled the edges of the surveys was “wrong,” Sutter admitted.

“It wasn’t a typo, and it wasn’t a missing citation or a factor of two,” he wrote. “It was subtle, but it was very wrong, and everything downstream of it was also wrong, and I had shared the whole thing in a room full of people who trusted me.”

“It was very wrong” HOW?!?!

The article might as well have continued “It was so obviously wrong that to go into detail would waste our readers time as any reader of this publication is well aware of the kinds of things that go wrong with the edges of surveys.”