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If the data was generated for testing and escaped accidentally, why not say that? Their claim that it's last year's data runs directly counter to this perfectly

• Stratoscope 13y ago
  That's a very good point, and of course you flag your test data with a special "TEST" flag. Now remember the lack of sleep for a week before the election, and imagine a possible bug where your client code somehow fails to put up that big TEST DATA message that you thought was there. It happens. Happened to me. :-)
  • mkessy 13y ago
    But given the history of rigged results in this country it is unlikely that this was some mistake in testing the app. The more reasonable explanation is that they just faked the data and accidentally released it. In fact their app probably doesn't even need to actually bring in real data, it just shoots out whatever they tell it.
• dagw 13y ago
  Perhaps they used the raw 2008 data as the base, but with 2008 candidates mapped to 2013 candidates for testing purposes.
• dspillett 13y ago
  I'm with you on taking the more cynical view on this, but there are plausible explanations. Perhaps they based their testing on 2008 data and just people wouldn't understand the testing process so didn't include that part in the explanation.