Data Gerrymandering

Intentionally changing what the data actually show to fit a claim furthering an agenda. Anytime someone ignores, suppresses, or alters findings, results, data or statistics to fit their agenda. This could be media skewing a graph to hype fear (ex. of violent crime, drug use), politicians ignoring data needed to accurately assess a policy (ex. Lead in the water), social scientists beefing up a study's results to be published, companies claiming a product is safe (ex. Pharmaceutical clinical trials), and everyday users of Twitter who offer a "poll" to show what 'everyone' thinks.

The graph showing the increase in violent crime nationwide was obvious data gerrymandering because the statistics were only taken from the cities with populations over 1 million.

The Senator was gerrymandering data when he said that giving ex-felons the right to vote would mean all the convicted terrorists will be able to cast a ballot.

by Gerry Mandered Data October 11, 2018

pulling a gerry

When someone bikes an incredibly long distance from his house in an urban area and locks the bike up on the sidewalk. You and your friends all over 21 and are out of college and this guy still bikes everywhere, not answering his cell phone so you don't know where he is or when he's getting there. You then hang your head in shame and pretend you don't know him.

Friend on bike: "Hey guys (sweating profusely), is the bar closed yet, I just biked 12 miles to get here.

You: "OMG dude, you have a car and are 24 years old, and yes! The bar is closed; it's 2:15AM.

Friend on bike: Damn, I’m gonna start biking home now.

Drunk Friend: Oh god, he is always pulling a gerry!

by philfromphilly February 17, 2008

Gerry Cherry

An old ladies vagina

My friend was into older women, he couldn’t get enough Gerry Cherry.

by JHawley73 April 30, 2019

Gerry News

Gerry News - Is a channel in a Discord server known as UTMP, that channel is made for TvGerry so he can post his shitposts and effortless news, some of them aren't even news!
TvGerry was the only person who was able posts, but than he added 90% of the active discord server members.

B- Hey! i just visited UTMP and saw a funny joke on Gerry News!
G- Oh Cool! What it is it?
B- Brickus Brockus!
G- I'm unfriending you

by 5L1M3 March 1, 2021

gerrymandate

Where a political party proclaims a mandate after clearly losing an election, because by the use of gerrymandering they managed to retain control of the House of Representatives. When if anything near a reasonable redistricting system would of been in place, they would of easily of lost that control.

In the 2012 Presidential election, Republicans maintained control of the House of Representatives even though they lost states like Ohio and got less of the congressional votes. However, because of abusive gerrymandering in Ohio, they ended up with 12 of the 16 congressional seats available in the state. When afterwards they claimed to have their own "mandate" from the voters, they only really had a gerrymandate, because they actually got less votes in the House of Representatives than the Democrats did and kept control by gaming the system, not because it was the will of the voters.

by Hauntedsoup November 9, 2012

gerrymandering

Splitting the voting population in favor of the group in power by any means necessary, such as specifically targeted advertising, redrawing district lines, teaching specific politics in schools, or violence.

It was gerrymandering when the Catholic highschool took the children to a Bush rally.

by Slippy P Funk Yo D Fird September 14, 2004

Gerreyn gap

The ankle gap between your Capri pants and your boat shoes, which is often measured by the length of the wearers penis

Would you look at that gerreyn gap

by Iloveanklesocks October 13, 2017