They also take advantage of the fact that engineers hate statistical anomalies. When ship engineers pretend not to have known about the existence of a magic pipe on board their vessel, Frith said he plays dumb and tries to gently antagonize them into breaking script. “Something just doesn’t make sense here,” Frith said, reenacting what he says over and over to engineers as he confronts them with anomalies in their oil logbooks. “Either this data is sloppy, you made a mistake, or I’m not understanding something here. Help me out.”
