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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>GIGO</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="giga-.html" title="giga-"/><link rel="next" href="gilley.html" title="gilley"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">GIGO</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="giga-.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="gilley.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="GIGO"/><dt xmlns="" id="GIGO"><b>GIGO</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/gi:<3A>goh/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’ — usually said in
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response to <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s who complain that a program
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didn't “<span class="quote">do the right thing</span>” when given imperfect input or
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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.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="firstterm">Garbage In, Gospel Out</span>:
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this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human
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beings have to put excessive trust in ‘computerized’
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