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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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survivorship rule

/sərˈvaɪ.vər.ʃɪp ruːl/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The logic that picks which department was right, then routes the complaint to the other one.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A defined policy that decides which value wins when multiple sources disagree about the same attribute of an entity.

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Seen in the wild · 2

The Master Data Quadrant Returns After a Four-Year SabbaticalShiny Object Pursuit
The Company That Sells the Single Source Becomes a Row in Someone Else'sPlatform Tunnel Vision

See also

data stewardshipA responsibility added to a job description, never to a calendar.
golden recordThe one true version of the customer, assembled from five wrong ones by a rule no one in the room can recite.
reconciliationThe monthly ritual of explaining why two numbers differ, after which both are kept.