The Fraudulent Numbers Story

It's an interesting short story that Focus (the German news magazine) put out....on the diesel car crisis in Germany.

The new head guy of the German Federal Ministry of Transportation asked the question.....are all these negative numbers being reported by air measuring stations accurate

Well.....no.

As he points out....some sites are now being reexamined, whether even if they meet the normal EU requirements.

So it came up about this one measuring station around Stuttgart, which was put onto a very heavily traveled road.  No one had any argument about that.  But the folks who signed off on the site.....were particular on which side of the road that the site should be.  That didn't make a lot of sense.

Later, the experts discovered that the original site.....gave them X-facts.  But once they shifted this around, to the opposite side of the street (same location, just opposite side of the road).....the number variation to X-facts dropped by two-thirds. 

Why?  No one goes into details.  My guess is that they chose a side that had a tall building for first position, and the 2nd (opposite) side was an open point (maybe a parking lot). 

So the question then....if you had a dozen collection sites around Stuttgart giving you data, and a year later you discovered that they were all purposely put on a point where it'd give you false data....then you corrected this, finding the two-thirds of the bad data gone.....what does that say?

But the question here after you think about it.....obviously these geeky guys had some kind of agenda to start with and knew precisely how to place the measurement stations to give you the fraudulent data.....what else are they hooked up to and giving you bad data? 

Then you come back to the whole German diesel crisis....was this all fake?  If you really wanted massive fury against the environmentalists for creating this whole mess....this would generate it.