My point was simply that describing the tests as random or arbitrary diminishes the value of the results without requiring an alternate viewpoint. That would be

My point was simply that describing the tests as random or arbitrary diminishes the value of the results without requiring an alternate viewpoint. That would be fair if it were truly random, but I don't think it is. Edit: Your last edit provides the alternate viewpoint. Your position seems to be more that the attention is misguided, not random.