Such was the breezy optimism of many of the advocates that an alien landing in Manchester Town Hall might have wondered what all the fuss over global warming was about.
It should be noted that the two groups of children had been carefully matched by the investigators so that they were comparable in age, ethnicity, race, and social class.
But in the end both parties' appeals for calm were respected and, crucially, Mr Akufo-Addo quickly conceded defeat after the final result was declared.
We have become the DJs, and our musical-recommendation ecosystem, as a result, has become the world's biggest jigsaw puzzle. Who do we trust for music picks lately, anyway?
Based on the promos for the show, the series looks like any other formulaic sitcom - it's an almost carbon copy of the setup for the original Friends - but it could be worth checking out.