The argument for prohibiting their use was that the volunteers were incompetent, and their data would be biased.

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But these efforts can only go so far if the survey data is flawed by biased answers.

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They also contend that data selection has been biased -- a charge which gained credence during the so-called "Climategate" scandal in 2009, when thousands of private emails from the UK's University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) were published on the Internet.

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Unfortunately because you are so anti-Apple biased, you must try your darnedest to cherry pick only the data that supports your dis-Apple agenda.

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