garbage-in, garbage-out (GIGO) definition

garbage-in, garbage-out (GIGO)

Computer industry axiom signifying that no matter how sophisticated an information processing system is, the quality (accuracy, completeness, relevance, timeliness, etc) of the information coming out of it cannot be better than the quality of the information that went in. A program working on inaccurate data will only yield misleading results.

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