This is indeed true. Sentiment stocks is the perfect case. Let´s have a look at some of his/her previous remarks before starting talking about placeholders to now accomodate to the company´s endless delay:
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Do you mean when do LL and Dr B speak? November 20. :)
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I do believe the stat experts have been working with hypothetical data in order to sort out any bugs in their software and that this has reduced the time it will take between data lock and top line.
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I believe these are the sorts of checks that were done that may have lessened the time it would take to reach top line from data lock.