I am not an expert in statistics, but i have read quite a few papers in my area (IT/Kubernetes/etc) that had an obviously faulty methodology if you have experience at all. Reading the other comments, this software should have never been used in this manner, which it seems to me someone who is hopefully well-versed in this area should have caught. Then again, the reviewers may have had very little experience in this area. (This happened to me, when the review came back the reviewers admitted themselves in the form that this was the case.)