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	<title>IQTrainwrecks.com &#187; Government Process IQ Trainwrecks</title>
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		<title>Police Untelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/03/22/police-untelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Register comes this wonderful example of the problems that can arise where data is used for unintended purposes, resulting in poor quality outcomes for all involved.
The NYPD have been regularly raiding the home of an elderly Brooklyn couple. They&#8217;ve been hit 50 times over the past 4 years, which might mark them out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you check on the cheques we sent to County Jail?</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/09/08/did-you-check-on-the-cheques-we-sent-to-county-jail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/09/08/did-you-check-on-the-cheques-we-sent-to-county-jail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Keith Underdown comes yet another classic IQ Trainwreck  which he came across on the CBS News.
It seems that up to 3900 prisoners received cheques (or &#8216;checks&#8217; to our North American readers) of US$250 each, despite the very low probability that they would be able to actually use them to stimulate the economy. Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Government Health (S)Care.</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/08/28/us-govt-health-scare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/08/28/us-govt-health-scare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Jim Harris at the excellent OCDQBlog.com comes this classic example of a real life Information Quality Trainwreck concerning US Healthcare. Keith Underdown also sent us the link to the story on USAToday&#8217;s site
It seems that 1800 US military veterans have recently been sent letters informing them that they have the degenerative neurological disease [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No child left behind (except for those that are)</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/08/no-child-left-behind-except-for-those-that-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/08/no-child-left-behind-except-for-those-that-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Sarsfield shares with us this classic tale of IQ Trainwreck-ry from Atlanta Georgia.
An analysis of student enrollment and transfer data carried out by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reveals a shocking number of students who appear to be dropping out of school and off the radar in Georgia.  This suggests that the dropout rate may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The terror of the Terrorist Watch list</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/08/the-terror-of-the-terrorist-watch-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/08/the-terror-of-the-terrorist-watch-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A source who wishes to remain anoynymous sent us this link to a story on Wired.com about the state of the US Government&#8217;s Terrorist watch list.
The many and varied problems with the watch list have been covered on this blog before.
However, the reason that this most recent story constitutes an IQTrainwreck is that it seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish State Exam leak being studied.</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/05/irish-state-exam-leak-being-studied/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/05/irish-state-exam-leak-being-studied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A serious complication has emerged in Leaving Certificate exams run by the Irish State each year.. An exam Superindtendent accidentally distributed the wrong paper in one exam centre earlier this week. He put out the exam questions for Paper 2 of the English examination, which wasn&#8217;t the subject being examined. The paper was, it seems, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am not a number &#8211; I&#8217;m a human being!</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/02/i-am-not-a-number-im-a-human-being/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/02/i-am-not-a-number-im-a-human-being/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Information Quality professionals (and indeed quality management professionals in general) often recite a mantra that good quality begins at the beginning of a process, that it must be designed in, and that defects need to be fixed as close to the start of the information chain as possible.
A post today on DataQualityPro.com from Dylan Jones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kid from 6th Sense works on Economic Stimulus &#8211; he stimulates dead people</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/05/13/kid-from-6th-sense-works-on-economic-stimulus-he-stimulates-dead-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/05/13/kid-from-6th-sense-works-on-economic-stimulus-he-stimulates-dead-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 10:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The bad joke in the headline aside, this story (which comes to us via Initiate Systems on Twitter, who linked to it from WBALTV in Baltimore USA) reveals a common type of IQ Trainwreck &#8211; the &#8220;sending things to dead people&#8221; problem.
As we know, the US Government has been sending out Stimulus Cheques (or Checks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax disc mailings&#8230; on the Double</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/05/09/tax-disc-mailings-on-the-double/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/05/09/tax-disc-mailings-on-the-double/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 17:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From our ever vigilant sources over at The Register comes this story of duplicated information resulting in confusion and costs to the UK Taxpayer.
It seems that the UK DVLA has issued duplicate tax discs to concientous motorists who renewed their motor tax on-line.
A DVLA spokesman told theRegister: &#8220;As a result of an error, a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch Revenue Service pays € 45 Mln into wrong bank accounts</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/04/16/dutch-revenue-service-pays-e-45-mln-into-wrong-bank-accounts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/04/16/dutch-revenue-service-pays-e-45-mln-into-wrong-bank-accounts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rik van der Schalie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenue]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, the Dutch revenue services paid some €45 Million  in allowances into wrong bank accounts. A government official said the allowances would be claimed back, but there were no guarantees that the entire amount could be reclaimed. It seems the Government will not perform a name/account number check, &#8220;as this would slow down payments&#8221;.
It [...]]]></description>
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