Nor can we know whether the satisfaction expressed by interviewers in observing either the recovery trajectory (where recovery was experienced by injured POIS participants), or, the resilience in the face of non-recovery, would have been as important to interviewers if the POIS project had involved a single cross-sectional interview instead of a series of follow-up interviews.
"I never thought that people would come up to me and say, 'I just did an interview,' instead of 'I loved that shark movie,' " he said.
Disappointment averted, then – but only because I elected to listen to the entire interview, instead of relying on the Telegraph's version of events, which implied Winstone had melodramatically announced a plan to leave the country.
Or as David Steinwedell, the chief investment officer for Wells, put it in a recent interview: "Instead of raising money on Wall Street, we raise money on Main Street".
I won't go as far as to say that Dimbleby's approach belittled the Prez - Clinton himself did that years ago - but opting for a ratings-chasing interview instead of something a little more in-depth (there was no mention by either party of Clinton's work on Aids in Africa, for example) made for a bit of a lost opportunity.
"Urban acupuncture is a surgical and selective intervention into the urban environment," said Los Angeles architect and professor John Southern in an interview, "instead of large scale projects that involve not only thousands of acres, but investment and infrastructure that municipalities can no longer provide".
