I work in adtech. We actually had to mangle some of our analytics data because it didn't match the broken data a client was used to. Our data was more accurate, but because the numbers didn't match the other analytics suite the client used, so we had to make it worse.

I wish I was joking.

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javcasas 36 minutes ago | parent [-]

I work in HR. We had to mangle our salary analytics stuff because it kept suggesting that clients should pay more to attract talent. Like most employees in the same sector and position were being paid more that what they wanted to pay and that meant our analytics were wrong.

	▲	hinata08 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		A (very) large but low paying company that struggled to hire around here also came down to that Managers hired a consulting firm to get a report about why they couldn't hire : The report confirmed they couldn't get application because they overpaid engineers and their job ads were too generous. Sometimes, you just have to use any broken maths to give the only thing that managers want to hear.