I well remember being sent on detachment as a Master Controller/Fighter Allocator to RSRE Malvern to do simulator trials comparing the results of the F4 vs incoming Soviet bombing raids including heavy ECM and the Tornado ADV (as it was then termed) against the same.
Inwas responsible for scrambling the fighters, raid matching, allocating tankers etc etc.
The results for the ADV were miraculously better with hardly a bomber or missile getting through, proving what a stupendously better fighter it was and justifying its purchase.
GIGO as they say. Proving nothing except what those setting up the trial wanted it to prove.