 That an assumption of this sort is required was emphasized by Shimony, Horne and Clauser (1976), who illustrate the point via a conspiracy involving manufacturers of experimental apparatus and physicists’ assistants. The director of the conspiracy concocts a set of correlation experiment data, consisting of a sequence of pairs of experimental settings and results obtained. The director instructs the manufacturer to preprogram the apparatus to produce the desired outcomes, and the assistants of the physicists performing the experiment to orchestrate the apparatus settings to match those specified by the predetermined list. Clearly, the conspirators may utilize any set of correlation data for their nefarious schemes; hence, any set of correlation data can be obtained as the outcomes of this sort of process, without any violation of any sort of locality condition. Nonetheless, for the sorts of experiments envisaged in tests of Bell inequalities, Shimony, Horne, and Clauser consider the assumption of independence of settings and the state of the particle pairs to be justified, even though relativistic causality does not mandate this independence.