"There's an interesting scientific principle that a wrong answer can be much more stimulating to the field than just sort of finding the answer that's in the back of the book. A wrong result gets people excited. Worried. Obviously, you don't really want that to be happening—it's OK for a theorist to come up with a speculative new theory that gets shot down, but experimentalists are supposed to be very careful and their error limits are supposed to be realistic. Unfortunately, with this experiment, whenever you're looking for a stronger correlation, any kind of systematic error you can imagine typically weakens it and moves it toward the hidden-variable range. It was a hard experiment. In those days, at any rate, with the kind of equipment I had, and … well, what can I say? I screwed up."