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		<title>In the ocean&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/01/07/in-the-ocean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blue Moses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor geographic data gives rubbish results.  Recently I read in Railways Africa:
“Electronic files of Southern California’s rail system can be downloaded from the Federal Railroad Administration’s website,” the Los Angeles Times says, “but are riddled with errors, placing hundreds of rail crossings at points far from any railroad tracks. Many are shown in the Pacific [...]]]></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>
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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. 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>
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		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<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>These are the IQ trainwrecks in your neighbourhood</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/05/01/these-are-the-trainwrecks-in-your-neighbourhood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/05/01/these-are-the-trainwrecks-in-your-neighbourhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 18:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stumbled upon this lovely pictorial IQTrainwreck today on Twitter. Thanks to Angela Hall (@sasbi) for taking the time to snap the shot and tweet it and for giving us permission to use it here.  As Angela says on her Twitpic tweet:
Data quality issue in the neighborhood? How many street signs (with diff names) are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Health &#8211; Dead on Arrival due to duff data quality?</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/04/15/google-health-dead-on-arrival-due-to-duff-data-quality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/04/15/google-health-dead-on-arrival-due-to-duff-data-quality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that poor quality information has caused some definitely embarassing and potentially risky outcomes in Google&#8217;s new on-line Patient Health Record service. The story has featured (amongst other places) :

Here (Boston.com, the website of the Boston Globe)
Here  (InformationWeek.com&#8217;s Global CIO Blog)

&#8216;Patient Zero&#8217; for this story was this blog post by &#8220;e-patient Dave&#8221; over at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IQ trainwrecks makes YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/11/02/iq-trainwrecks-makes-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/11/02/iq-trainwrecks-makes-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Underdown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a story of an IQ trainwreck that i bing presented on YouTube. In fact YouTube turns out to be an interesting resource for IQ visual material.
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		<title>Trusted Electoral Information</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/10/24/trusted-electoral-information/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/10/24/trusted-electoral-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In every democracy citizens must be able to trust that the State will not impede their right to vote through any act or omission on the part of the State or its agents. Regular visitors to the iqtrainwrecks.com blog will know that Ireland has it's fair share of problems with its electoral register. Of course, that isn't news. However, the Washington Post has reported last weekend (18th October) that the US elections are being plagued by similar issues. The New York Times covers the same ground in this story from 9th October. With a slightly important vote coming up on the 4th of November, that is news]]></description>
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