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As an IT guy, a chef, and a jack of all trades and master of few, that happens far more often than I would care to admit. I have literally had people tell me, "Well, yes you know more about [blank} than anyone I've ever met, but your analysis doesn't {make line go up] so it must be wrong, because [line must always go up.}
Fucking Jack Welsh. I wish I could build a time machine and shoot that shortsighted asshole between the eyes just before he laid off his first GM employee in the name of imaginary profit.
...then retired and receive the biggest severance package in history up to that point (417 million in 2001).
I'm an Analyst. The amount of times I've had to tell people how their business works based on the data they had me analyse and prove their own preconceptions wrong...
"I was under the impression it should work that way"
Great! I'll whip up a report showing just how often it doesn't.
"Those are edge cases"
They make up about 35%
"Can we filter them from the final report?"
Then your figures will be way off and I get to justify the error when inevitably someone spots it and will blame the data for it. Fix the issue in the source, if you don't want it screwing up your numbers.