Open-data staff find a public PDF resume that matches a vendor contact's LinkedIn profile except the employment dates differ by two years. What belongs in the report?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Two public resumes that disagree are two exhibits, not a puzzle to sand smooth. Put both date ranges in the report and let the conflict sit there. Averaging them invents a third story nobody published.
Full Explanation
Date conflicts across public career artifacts stay in the report. The PDF resume and the LinkedIn profile are separate sourced versions, and silently averaging them creates an unsourced timeline. Neither format is automatically authoritative. OSINT methodology records contradictions instead of resolving them without evidence.