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I have a tongue-in-cheek joke about this: "Data doesn't lie."

The problem with most people is that they agree with that notion and never second-guess it. ...but anyone who's ever modified anything in code or a database or the like will know that to not be the case.

Considering it "magic" also proves the following posit: The result of the use of that technology is potentially as faulty as the operator whom doesn't understand it.

Case in point: "Tides go in, tides go out. You can't explain that."