For anybody who has a research background, are data sets contaminated by deleting data that disagrees with the projects sponsor?

[Sixgunsound]

Inquiring minds want to know what qualified researchers have to say about the matter. The question is not given a context to avoid providing anything to troll about.

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The point of this question is to gauge people’s awareness of best research practices. There isn’t a hidden agenda.

[Seinna]

If you're doing a research then it's up to you and your team what you want to include in the report. I'm not a researcher but I'm a scientist and I worked in a research center... people believe that science is unbiased and that might be true. But people, including scientists are, they need to eat and they need a place to live. It doesn't matter so much who does the research but who pays for it. And by far the most telented researchers go to private companies.

Also, research might be manipulated depending on what the team wants to find out similarly like the statistics. It's about the kind of questions you ask. Lastly, because majority of high level research is done by private companies, it belongs to them and they don't need to share it. Meaning, for every research they do share with public there could be 30 that they keep locked in their drawer that's in direct opposition to it. They own it so they can do it and manipulate the public this way.

I think majority of people are very naive when it comes to those things. There is a lot more clarity with government funded research but it's a fraction of all the research done and used to impact the public.

[Sixgunsound]

Thank you for posting as someone with a background in the field.

[jennifer_bloom]

If your referring to commercial tampering with buyer feedback, a lot of businesses do that and I’ve had posts get deleted when I was critical of the people who sold it on my buyers feedback post. It’s wrong but impossible to prove and governments are too busy to care.

[Sixgunsound]

I’m not referring to anything, I even said as much on the initial question.

[jennifer_bloom]

I thought you had a personal context for your question that you were removing in the question details to evaluate our self contextualization skills and fluency in business interests, was not aware you literally meant you had no predetermined context for your question, thought you had one but we’re not verbalizing it.

[Andres77]

If it's relevant data but removed because of bias... then the end result is irrelevant. It's faulty.

[RACSKC0B]

I believe there is a saying "there's is no such thing as "bad data".
Because all data regardless of the expected outcome, provided that there was no error, or interference from something unintended, all data is true. We may not like what it tells us, it might not tell us the answer to the question we're asking. But data is not wrong.
Even if, it is irrelevant.
Right.

[MikeInHawaii]

Yes! And I always read the conflict of interest disclosure.