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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> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <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:´goh/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. &#8216;Garbage In, Garbage Out&#8217; &#8212; usually said in
response to <a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>s who complain that a program
didn't &#8220;<span class="quote">do the right thing</span>&#8221; when given imperfect input or
otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used to describe failures
in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="firstterm">Garbage In, Gospel Out</span>:
this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human
beings have to put excessive trust in &#8216;computerized&#8217;
data.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="giga-.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gilley.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">giga- </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gilley</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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