In the example, an answer of five instead of one could cause a researcher to use five times the required concentration in the next experiment and pursue a hazardous experimental path, despite performing that experiment correctly.

“I, I mean, there's a real economic and, um, also in some cases public health impact of getting this kind of thing wrong. Um, so in this example, if you were to answer five instead of one, and somebody were to run with that, they would be performing their next experiment, experiment at like a five x concentration of what is actually required, um, and basically going down a experimental path that is just fraught with peril by virtue of the, um, initial investigation just being completely wrong, um,”

“although the experiment was performed correctly.”