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by CWwdcdk7h 57 days ago
> some could be tempted to slightly alter the data

We even suspect the G. Mendel of altering his pea data, it is unlikely he got results so close to predicted ratios. So it is not "some", everyone is tempted to "clean up" data, be it by removing outliers or by duplicating "good" rows.