Decision-Based Evidence Making

Decision-Based Evidence Making is the practice of making a decision first and then actively seeking data to justify that decision, while ignoring or suppressing evidence that contradicts it.

For example, a government releases a survey to residents that includes leading or biased questions. If the results support their decisions, they publish/point to them and say “look, its what the people want”. If the answers don’t support their decisions, they don’t publish the survey results.