Her quote was fairly damning in the face of a huge screw-up, other metrics aside: she didn't consider the possibility that the snafu had something to do with th

Her quote was fairly damning in the face of a huge screw-up, other metrics aside: she didn't consider the possibility that the snafu had something to do with the dip in scores and then after careful analysis decide the effect was negligable, she explicitly refused to consider it because it doesn't fit in with her narrative.