Datamandering
The act of manipulating the definitions of your data post-hoc to take advantage of outliers or other positive abnormal results.
Manager: Our sales this month were horrible!
Analyst: But if you just circle this area here, or highlight this product- look, it's not so bad!
Manager: But our sales still sucked. You're just datamandering.
Analyst: But if you just circle this area here, or highlight this product- look, it's not so bad!
Manager: But our sales still sucked. You're just datamandering.