Man you can adjust on the fly better than anyone I’ve ever seen.
You can do that when you've selected an issue with hundreds of undefinable/unquantifiable outside parameters, that all have the potential to greatly influence the outcome or results of the issue at hand. You're just making it up as you go and tossing out the effects of anything that goes against your established thesis and belief. Its the perfect circular argument. If kill numbers are up, its bad. If kill numbers go down it's bad. No matter which way the data falls, up or down, it is a self-fulfilling result.