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GIGO
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/gi:goh/ Garbage In, Garbage Out usually said in response to users who
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complain that a program didn't do the right thing when given imperfect input
or otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used to describe failures
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in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data.