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Sounds like the mocks are overused or used inappropriately in your experience (whether by a colleague or yourself).

Mocks have their place. A prototypical example is at user-visible endpoints (eg: a mock client).

s/left/right/g

> If you hold to Truth No. 1, you have no difficulty in believing that 1000 flips can come up 1000 Tails just as easily as the 50:50 result.

There are (1000 choose 500) ways to an equal number of heads/tails and 1 way to get all tails. If you get all tails, you should probably question the correctness of your model.

Most effective thing to do relative to your time is probably participating in relevant FTC requests for public comments: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/public-comments