Profiling of 'household size' on housing applications shows multimo…

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Profiling of 'household size' on housing applications shows multimodal spikes at 0 and 99. How should the DQ analyst interpret that signal?

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As likely sentinel or default codes that need business confirmation before use — Spikes at 0 and 99 in household size are like speedometers stuck on 'park' and 'max'—often codes, not real homes. Profiling patterns like that usually flag sentinel or default values. Confirm the business meaning before trusting the numbers.

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As proof the field is already accurate because common values dominate

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As a reason to drop the field from all analytic models without review

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As evidence that multimodal distributions always mean fraud

Profiling of 'household size' on housing applications shows multimodal spikes at 0 and 99. How should the DQ analyst interpret that signal?

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