Applying the wrong data to a business problem can lead to misleading conclusions.
Per the usual, the focus is on the wrong set of data at the wrong time.
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" If anything, he said at a recent industry conference, "when you get all the data in one place, you discover what's wrong, where the bad data is.
Either investors have it wrong or the agencies that provide the data for this ranking have it wrong.
Surveillance and intelligence data can be wrong, and conditions and situations on the battlefield can change.
But having patients decide which doctor gets which data is the wrong choice.
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More often, the cause is bad data: wrong age, wrong number of years of service, wrong salary information and so on.
Because the new study has found warmer tropical waters in ancient times, it would support the idea that the earlier shell data were indeed wrong.
However, he ultimately reaches the wrong conclusions with the right data.
But the company says it has done nothing wrong, arguing that withholding technical data is a legitimate tactic in disputes over intellectual property.
For instance, she said, an employee ticking the wrong box when they enter your data into a database could mean a person ends up labelled as a former criminal or credit liability.
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Logic dictated looking at Macau tourism data, but the existing hotels in Macau were like skid row compared to the ultra luxurious Venetian, so the existing data would identify the wrong customers.
The NHS has disputed the survey saying the figures were wrong and the RCN had misinterpreted the data.
And when our soft data turns out to be wrong, it can have disastrous consequences for our decision-making processes.
The sensible way to do so is to prove Mr. McIntyre wrong using facts and evidence and improved data.
Those specialists must also prevent that data from falling into the wrong hands.
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Gruber is all for research but says that it is too easy for the data to get into the wrong hands.
No one wants medical data to fall into the wrong hands, but neither do we want patients to suffer because their medical information cannot be accessed.
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If devices associated with the Apple ID are stolen, the owner can execute a remote wipe to prevent their data from falling into the wrong hands.
The problem is, real-world data proves this claim is wrong.
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However, like Roubini, these analysts surprisingly misunderstand basic facts about income, demographics and investment in these facilities, and they use data points that are simply wrong to lead to their conclusions.
New NCAA data suggests this is flatly wrong.
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The full-month data released Thursday showed just how wrong he was, putting further pressure on authorities to loosen policy.
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And remote kill is an important capability for people whose valuable data could end up in the wrong hands.
The drop in reserves was such an unfamiliar twist in the data that Reuters initially reported it with the wrong sign.
But sometime between now and 2016, the Republican party may take an objective, data-driven, look at what went wrong in 2012 and how to fix it.
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As conservatives study the election data in order to figure out what went wrong, they need to focus on overcoming the significant trust issues that women have with the GOP.
But critics who assert there is no data supporting back surgery are "flat-out wrong, " says spine surgeon John Peloza of Dallas.
The problem is not that people are being dishonest or falsifying their data (these are practices that are so obviously wrong or immoral that we hope nobody does them), but science requires another level of honesty that goes beyond reporting the results that support our conclusions.
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