Why not? You dismiss this out-of-hand, but you don't explain the reason for dismissing it.
I was expressing my opinion, perhaps I should have qualified my statement with 'It seems to me' or 'I think'. I am not a scientist, but google can point you to the same idea being promoted by people who are. Me, I'm just drawing on my own personal experience which can be dismissed as anecdotal.
It must be Rain Man that's the problem.
Phew, I was beginning to think it was me.
From TFA:
"If I can take this to the next step, I think think it is going to be good for our country," Pederson said.
Quite apart from the fact the country isn't explicitly mentioned in TFA (I assume it's the USA), why would someone say this? Not good for humanity, or for the communications or IT industries, but good for a specific country? Strange.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.