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	<title>IQTrainwrecks.com &#187; Government Process IQ Trainwrecks</title>
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		<title>Accounting Accountability</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/11/04/accounting-accountability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Europe we learn of two stories with similar characteristics that tick all the boxes for classic Information Quality Trainwrecks. &#160; From Germany we hear that due to errors in internal accounting in the recently nationalised Hypo Real Estate, the German National debt was overstated by €55 Billion (US$76 bn approx). This was doubly embarrassing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Card, Red Faces</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/21/green-card-red-faces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political World IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA IQ Train Wrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Government is being sued in a massive class-action suit representing Green Card applicants from over 30 countries which alleges that the United States unfairly denied 22,000 people a Green Card due to a computer blunder. This story is reported in the Irish Times and the Wall Street Journal. It is not in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas by-products give a pain in the gut</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/17/gas-byproducts-give-pain-gut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/17/gas-byproducts-give-pain-gut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA IQ Train Wrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utilities IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Lwanga Yonke comes this great story about how the choice of unit of measure for reporting, particularly for regulatory reporting or Corporate Social Responsibility reports can be very important. The natural gas industry’s claim that it is making great strides in reducing the polluted wastewater it discharges to rivers is proving difficult to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calculation errors casts doubt on TSA Backscatter safety</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/16/calculation-errors-casts-doubt-on-tsa-backscatter-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/16/calculation-errors-casts-doubt-on-tsa-backscatter-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Enforcement IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is reported in the past week on Wired.com and CNN that the TSA in the United States is to conduct extensive radiation safety tests on their recently introduced backscatter full body scanners (affectionately known as the &#8220;nudie scanner&#8221; in some quarters). An internal review of the previous safety testing which had been done on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Arm of the (f)Law</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/15/the-wrong-arm-of-the-flaw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/15/the-wrong-arm-of-the-flaw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Enforcement IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scrap and rework]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Steve Tuck and Privacy International comes this great story from the UK of how a simple error, if left uncorrected, can result in significantly unwelcome outcomes. It is also a cautionary tale for those of us who might think that flagging a record as being &#8220;incorrect&#8221; or inaccurate might solve the problem&#8230; such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zero Entertainment in Norway</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/10/20/zero-entertainment-in-norway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/10/20/zero-entertainment-in-norway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[IQ Trainwrecks and Customer Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story comes from our Norwegian Correspondent, Mr. Arnt-Erik Hansen (former IAIDQ Director of Member Services). We let him tell his tale in his own words, with only minor editing&#8230;. ++++ Norway is the only country in the world, as far as I know, with full transparency with regards to personal income, wealth and state [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Justice IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[false positive matching]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Justice IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<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. [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Untelligence IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[american healthcare]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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