I processed hundreds of thousands of miles of seismic data in my career. The first thing we needed to do for any processing project was to select a subset of the data for use in defining the parameters that would be used to process the full volume of data. We used brute stacks - a preliminary output in the process - to locate interesting areas with complex attributes to make sure we could handle the volume's complexities. In industry slang these were "carefully selected random examples".
It was inevitable that we would find a situation during the processing for which our parameters were not optimized because we had missed that edge case in selecting the examples used for testing.
In the same way in real life if you only demonstrably know that 10% of the test answers are correct then it is also true that some edge case in the 90% of untested answers could leave all or part of that untested space false or sub-optimum.
If there was a point to my original post it is this. You only know something is true when you have proven it to be true. A maximum likelihood of truth is not a guarantee of truth it is only a guarantee that it is likely to be true. You won't know how sharp the sting will be until you peel the onion.