That just about summed it up. Those which were going to fail would have done so at midnight. These skewed and invalid numbers were naturally seized upon and broadcast far and wide by Doomers. They deliberately ignored other surveys which showed the opposite. Those who did happen to hear of it in passing considered it too silly to bother with.
Control systems are completely outside of their training and experience.
Congress and the media share blame here, too, because they didn't understand this, either. Instead of interviewing the skilled engineers who design, implement and maintain these systems , they interviewed the aforementioned. Paula Gordon, Jim Lord and Mark Frautschi, just to name three. The Cowboys, by contrast, take a much more relaxed approach. Look at Microsoft Corporation, the largest software firm on the planet.