But we don't care about whether it's a wise policy generally. That's a question for statisticians. We care whether it was wise in this instance, and that we won't know until the result is in. Actually wrote a piece about this very point a while back: https://www.chrisliss.com/p/but-my-process-was-good (Ignore the irony of Sam Darnold suddenly becoming good two years after it was published!)