No, because instead of worrying about the bad data, the powers that be will instead take the bad data as-is. No one cares about data quality, they only care tha

No, because instead of worrying about the bad data, the powers that be will instead take the bad data as-is. No one cares about data quality, they only care that they have someone or something to point to when they make terrible policy decisions. THAT'S the problem. Why do you think Trump wants to exclude illegal immigrants from the Census? The media will never footnote data because they are lazy or don't understand or they've given up. The same goes for when GW Bush took the cost of the Iraq War out of the budget. Every media outlet just fell in line and reported the budget as-is, instead of saying "Oh by the way, the trillions of dollars spent on the Iraq War aren't part of this number."