Datamandering

What is Datamandering?


1.

The act of manipulating the definitions of your data post-hoc to take advantage of outliers or other positive abnormal results.

Manager: Our sales this month were horrible!

Analyst: But if you just circle this area here, or highlight this product- look, it's not so bad!

Manager: But our sales still sucked. You're just datamandering.

See gerrymandering


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