The “Department of Government Efficiency” keeps a “Wall of Receipts” to signal transparency…
Mistaken Data
Hm. That does not look right.
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Wall of receipts is wall of inconsistent records
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Living 82-year-old Social Security recipient erroneously marked as dead
Pam Johnson got an email from her bank about her husband’s death. The…
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$8 billion was actually $8 million in DOGE mistake
The DOGE site has a “wall of receipts” that claims $55 billion in…
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150-year-olds probably not receiving Social Security benefits
The Department of Government Efficiency claims data in the Social Security Administration database…
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Multiplication mistake leads to exaggerated plastic cautions
There was a brouhaha a couple months ago over research that suggested black…
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Macy’s lost track of $154m in expenses because of poor metrics
For Bloomberg, Jeannette Neumann describes the accounting error:
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Flawed Rotten Tomatoes ratings
Rotten Tomatoes aggregates movie reviews to spit out a freshness score for each…
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Supermarket provides AI-driven meal planner and is disappointed by the internet using it to output weird recipes
A supermarket chain in New Zealand offered an AI-based recipe generator, and of…
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Honesty research likely faked data
Research by Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino suggested that people were more honest…
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Bias in AI-generated images
Lensa is an app that lets you retouch photos, and it recently added…
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Historical data
Randall Munroe provides another fine observation through xkcd.
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Google Maps incorrectly pointing people to crisis pregnancy centers
Davey Alba and Jack Gillum, for Bloomberg, found that Google Maps commonly points…
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Looking for falsified images in Alzheimer’s study
Charles Piller, for Science, highlights the work of Matthew Schrag, who uses image…
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Unreliable FBI crime data
The Marshall Project and Axios report that the FBI changed their reporting system…
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Simpson’s Paradox in vaccination data
This chart, made by someone who is against vaccinations, shows a higher mortality…
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Scientists with bad data
Tim Harford warns against bad data in science:
Some frauds seem comical. In… -
‘Less than 10 percent’ outdoors
The CDC said that “less than 10 percent” of coronavirus cases were from…
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Excel spreadsheet limit leads to 16,000 Covid-19 cases left off daily count
Microsoft Excel is useful for many things, but it has its limitations (like…
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FDA commissioner corrects his misinterpretation of reduced mortality
Talking about a possible plasma treatment for Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration…
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Algorithm leads to arrest of the wrong person
Even though there was supposedly a person in the decision-making process and a…
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