The research in question being a poll on the website that would get maybe 150 responses sometimes but usually fewer.

I knew this because I wrote that poll system.

Of course, back then lawyers and drug companies were forbidden to advertise. Congress felt that might tend to flood the courts with worthless lawsuits, or encourage people to take meds they didn't need. Silly Congress.

Craziest thing I ever read.

The context suggests that the “stakeholders” were leaders pushing to incorporate GenAI into a business process. They had the internal researchers analyse results or data in that process and it looks like the researchers produced results that didn’t support doing that.

I really shouldn’t be more specific. There is ample room for me to be a bit wrong. But “stakeholder” in this case was definitely not a community member or underrepresented person.

I think that the researcher writing that line knew full well that even if their boss read that, they would not understand it.

In other words, the company made up shit to please its know-nothing shareholders, and ignored facts its own researchers discovered that disagree with it.

It's as if Trump's persona were metastasizing across the corporatesphere.

They "employed a methodology" that was not the 'scientific method' or even 'due diligence'.

The method was 'wishful thinking'.