The fake data usually is the most interesting, in so much as ‘interesting’ is a measure of surprise or confirmation. Also before saying ‘it is pretty accuarete’, the actual accuracy (vs the sources etc, or vs whenever they did the study at all) got to be evaluated. Usually people say ‘pretty accurate’ about stuff like this whenever it simply looks plausible to them.
The fake data usually is the most interesting, in so much as ‘interesting’ is a measure of surprise or confirmation. Also before saying ‘it is pretty accuarete’, the actual accuracy (vs the sources etc, or vs whenever they did the study at all) got to be evaluated. Usually people say ‘pretty accurate’ about stuff like this whenever it simply looks plausible to them.