On August 18, in his interview with Chris Mooney, when he was asked if there were coding errors, Lott replied:
There are a couple minor errors, the data is on, the data is available for anybody to look at, anybody can go and download the data, I've made it so that people can go and easily replicate the results, if you went to the website...
Two days later Lott admitted that there were "a few hundred data entries that contained mistakes". Now when Lott talked to Mooney, he must have known how many errors there were, since he had corrected them when constructing the corrected tables that he posted to his website in May. He lied to Mooney about how many errors there were.