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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
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[DATA EXPUNGED]

used by the scp foundation in articles or reports. DATA EXPUNGED means the data was deleted from all records while Redacted means you need a higher clearance level to view the information.
The data recovered from the artifact shows that DATA EXPUNGED. research halted on order of the overseer council.
by [DATA EXPUNGED] May 29, 2019
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Robert graduated from York with a 2:1 in sociology and ended up with a job which consisted largely of data entry for his sins
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