Madam Speaker, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is always appropriate at this hour in this place.
The member will know that I recently learned that the reason Douglas Adams picked 42 as the answer to life, the universe, and everything is that 42 is the ASCII code for an asterisk, which is a wild card, which means it can represent anything one wants it to. However, if that is used in statistics, the end result is a whole lot of bad data.
Making sure that we are using good data for everything we do is critically important lest we end up in the improbability drive and have no idea where we land.