That is a very charitable reading of that person's comment. But look at the follow-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5168773 https://news.ycombinator.co

That is a very charitable reading of that person's comment. But look at the follow-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5168773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5168773 > Nobody adjusted the models when they produced incorrect answers because the answers weren't incorrect. They weren't the answers you like in hindsight, but they were correct insofar as the model was vetted & the input was correct. This is 100% absolving the agencies of any responsibility for the brokenness of their models. According to this person, it's the public's fault for behaving in ways that led to unrealistic ratings, and not at all the agencies' fault for having models that didn't reflect reality.