diff --git a/collector/collector.go b/collector/collector.go
index d82af488294110e9861faf2007b3b9ede035d368..21e5235954cabb06bbdd368ce0a072ca120b7198 100644
--- a/collector/collector.go
+++ b/collector/collector.go
@@ -124,13 +124,14 @@ type updateResponse struct {
 }
 
 // SubmitMeasurement submits a measurement belonging to the report
-// to the OONI collector. On success, we will modify the measurement
-// updating its ReportID field. If the collector supports sending back to
-// us a measurement ID, we also update the m.OOID field with it.
+// to the OONI collector. We will unconditionally modify the measurement
+// with the ReportID it should contain. If the collector supports sending
+// back to us a measurement ID, we also update the m.OOID field with it.
 func (r *Report) SubmitMeasurement(
 	ctx context.Context, m *model.Measurement,
 ) error {
 	var updateResponse updateResponse
+	m.ReportID = r.ID
 	err := (&jsonapi.Client{
 		BaseURL:    r.client.BaseURL,
 		HTTPClient: r.client.HTTPClient,
@@ -143,7 +144,6 @@ func (r *Report) SubmitMeasurement(
 		}, &updateResponse,
 	)
 	if err == nil {
-		m.ReportID = r.ID
 		m.OOID = updateResponse.ID
 	}
 	return err
diff --git a/experiment/mkevent/mkevent.go b/experiment/mkevent/mkevent.go
index 1709edc1f3fb4fc3fb67822722f110aa8cd29fd1..4151522bc0d983d40d863f424de6d90c4f9bbc4c 100644
--- a/experiment/mkevent/mkevent.go
+++ b/experiment/mkevent/mkevent.go
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ func Handle(
 ) {
 	if event.Key == "measurement" {
 		// We reparse the measurement and overwrite it. This is how we manage to
-		// return the measurement to the caller. Seriousy.
+		// return the measurement to the caller. Seriously.
 		//
 		// We panic if we cannot parse because since MK v0.9.0 the vendored
 		// nlohmann/json library should throw if passed non UTF-8 input.