[1] The effective management of any organization relies on accurate data.
Inaccurate data reporting can lead to poor decision-making based on erroneous evidence.
[1] When data is not reported, the problem is known as underreporting; the opposite problem leads to false positives.
Census bureaus may hire perhaps hundreds of thousands of workers to achieve the task of counting all of the residents of a country.
[2][3] Teachers use data from student assessments to determine grades; manufacturers rely on sales data from retailers to indicate which products should have increased production, and which should be curtailed or discontinued.